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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4] oom: add trace points for debugging.
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] tracepoint: add tracepoints for debugging oom_score_adj.
>
> oom_score_adj is used for guarding processes from OOM-Killer. One of problem
> is that it's inherited at fork(). When a daemon set oom_score_adj and
> make children, it's hard to know where the value is set.
>
> This patch adds some tracepoints useful for debugging. This patch adds
> 3 trace points.
> - creating new task
> - renaming a task (exec)
> - set oom_score_adj
>
> To debug, users need to enable some trace pointer. Maybe filtering is useful as
>
> # EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/task/
> # echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_newtask/filter
> # echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_rename/filter
> # echo 1 > $EVENT/enable
> # EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/oom/
> # echo 1 > $EVENT/enable
>
> output will be like this.
> # grep oom /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
> bash-7699 [007] d..3 5140.744510: oom_score_adj_update: pid=7699 comm=bash oom_score_adj=-1000
> bash-7699 [007] ...1 5151.818022: task_newtask: pid=7729 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
> ls-7729 [003] ...2 5151.818504: task_rename: pid=7729 oldcomm=bash newcomm=ls oom_score_adj=-1000
> bash-7699 [002] ...1 5175.701468: task_newtask: pid=7730 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
> grep-7730 [007] ...2 5175.701993: task_rename: pid=7730 oldcomm=bash newcomm=grep oom_score_adj=-1000
>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Thanks for being persistant with this!


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