Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: add option to disable dump_stack()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:02:30 -0400 Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@redhat.com> wrote:

> One of the largest chunks of log messages in a OOM is from dump_stack() and in
> some cases it isn't even necessary to figure out what's going on. In
> systems with multiple tenants/containers with limited resources each
> OOMs can be way more frequent and being able to reduce the amount of log
> output for each situation is useful.
> 
> This patch adds a sysctl to allow disabling dump_stack() during an OOM while
> keeping the default to behave the same way it behaves today.

Can you get the same effect by using "dmesg -n <N>"?  Probably not, I
didn't look.

> --- a/include/linux/oom.h
> +++ b/include/linux/oom.h
> @@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ static inline bool task_will_free_mem(struct task_struct *task)
>  
>  /* sysctls */
>  extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks;
> +extern int sysctl_oom_dump_stack;
>  extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
>  extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
>  #endif /* _INCLUDE_LINUX_OOM_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index e69201d..c812523 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -1176,6 +1176,13 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
>  		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
>  	},
>  	{
> +		.procname	= "oom_dump_stack",
> +		.data		= &sysctl_oom_dump_stack,
> +		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_oom_dump_stack),
> +		.mode		= 0644,
> +		.proc_handler	= proc_dointvec,
> +	},
> +	{
>  		.procname	= "overcommit_ratio",
>  		.data		= &sysctl_overcommit_ratio,
>  		.maxlen		= sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_ratio),
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 1ecc0bc..bdbf83b 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
>  int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
>  int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
>  int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks = 1;
> +int sysctl_oom_dump_stack = 1;
>  
>  DEFINE_MUTEX(oom_lock);
>  
> @@ -384,7 +385,8 @@ static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc, struct task_struct *p,
>  		current->signal->oom_score_adj);
>  	cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(current);
>  	task_unlock(current);
> -	dump_stack();
> +	if (sysctl_oom_dump_stack)
> +		dump_stack();
>  	if (memcg)
>  		mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(memcg, p);
>  	else

The patch seems reasonable to me, but it's missing the required update
to Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.