Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752379AbaBKEIF (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:08:05 -0500 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.66]:41201 "EHLO szxga03-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752186AbaBKEIB (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 23:08:01 -0500 Message-ID: <52F9A1D8.7040301@huawei.com> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:06:48 +0800 From: Jianguo Wu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Rientjes CC: Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , Rik van Riel , , Subject: Re: [question] how to figure out OOM reason? should dump slab/vmalloc info when OOM? References: <52DCFC33.80008@huawei.com> <52DE6AA0.1000801@huawei.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.177.24.155] X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2014/1/22 4:41, David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Jianguo Wu wrote: > >>> The problem is that slabinfo becomes excessively verbose and dumping it >>> all to the kernel log often times causes important messages to be lost. >>> This is why we control things like the tasklist dump with a VM sysctl. It >>> would be possible to dump, say, the top ten slab caches with the highest >>> memory usage, but it will only be helpful for slab leaks. Typically there >>> are better debugging tools available than analyzing the kernel log; if you >>> see unusually high slab memory in the meminfo dump, you can enable it. >>> >> >> But, when OOM has happened, we can only use kernel log, slab/vmalloc info from proc >> is stale. Maybe we can dump slab/vmalloc with a VM sysctl, and only top 10/20 entrys? >> > > You could, but it's a tradeoff between how much to dump to a general > resource such as the kernel log and how many sysctls we add that control > every possible thing. Slab leaks would definitely be a minority of oom > conditions and you should normally be able to reproduce them by running > the same workload; just use slabtop(1) or manually inspect /proc/slabinfo > while such a workload is running for indicators. I don't think we want to > add the information by default, though, nor do we want to add sysctls to > control the behavior (you'd still need to reproduce the issue after > enabling it). > > We are currently discussing userspace oom handlers, though, that would > allow you to run a process that would be notified and allowed to allocate > a small amount of memory on oom conditions. It would then be trivial to > dump any information you feel pertinent in userspace prior to killing > something. I like to inspect heap profiles for memory hogs while > debugging our malloc() issues, for example, and you could look more > closely at kernel memory. > > I'll cc you on future discussions of that feature. > Hi David, Thanks for your kindly explanation, do you have any specific plans on this? Thanks, Jianguo Wu. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/