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From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] OOM Debug print selection and additional
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On Thu 29-08-19 08:03:19, Edward Chron wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:56 AM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
[...]
> > Or simply provide a hook with the oom_control to be called to report
> > without replacing the whole oom killer behavior. That is not necessary.
> 
> For very simple addition, to add a line of output this works.

Why would a hook be limited to small stuff?

> It would still be nice to address the fact the existing OOM Report prints
> all of the user processes or none. It would be nice to add some control
> for that. That's what we did.

TBH, I am not really convinced partial taks list is desirable nor easy
to configure. What is the criterion? oom_score (with potentially unstable
metric)? Rss? Something else?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs