Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:04:30 -0200
From: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
        Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: add sysctl to enable slab memory dump
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 03:17:23PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > This, alongside with all other data dumped in OOM events, is very helpful
> > information in diagnosing why there was an OOM condition specially when
> > kernel code is under investigation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
> 
> Makes sense. Do you have an example how an out-of-memory slab cache
> dump looks like?
> 
Yes I do have a couple of dumps taken from some dabbler testing I was
performing. Would it be interesting to introduce a sample at the commit message, or
among the Documentation paragraphs?


> Minor style nit: just define the zeroed variables in this block.
> 
I will adjust those.

Thanks for your feedback!
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Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
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