From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: disable dump_tasks by default
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 16:08:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190905140833.GB3838@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12bcade2-4190-5e5e-35c6-7a04485d74b9@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
On Thu 05-09-19 22:39:47, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
[...]
> There is nothing that prevents users from enabling oom_dump_tasks by sysctl.
> But that requires a solution for OOM stalling problem.
You can hardly remove stalling if you are not reducing the amount of
output or get it into a different context. Whether the later is
reasonable is another question but you are essentially losing "at the
OOM event state".
> Since I know how
> difficult to avoid problems caused by printk() flooding, I insist that
> we need "mm,oom: Defer dump_tasks() output." patch.
insisting is not a way to cooperate.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-05 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-03 14:45 [RFC PATCH] mm, oom: disable dump_tasks by default Michal Hocko
2019-09-03 15:02 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-03 15:13 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-03 15:32 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-03 19:12 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-05 16:10 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-03 20:52 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-04 5:40 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04 20:04 ` David Rientjes
2019-09-05 13:39 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-05 14:08 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-09-06 10:46 ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-06 11:02 ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-06 11:11 ` Tetsuo Handa
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