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Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:40:34 +0800
From:	Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] accouting: account if a task was killed by OOM killer

This patch introduces a new accounting flag which is set when a task
was killed by OOM killer. taskstats can tell users when a job has been
killed by the oomkiller.

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
---
 Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt |    2 +-
 include/linux/acct.h                          |    1 +
 include/linux/taskstats.h                     |    2 +-
 kernel/acct.c                                 |    2 ++
 kernel/tsacct.c                               |    2 ++
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
index e7512c0..c3cf3cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
+++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct taskstats {
 	__u32	ac_exitcode;		/* Exit status */
 
   	/* The accounting flags of a task as defined in <linux/acct.h>
-	 * Defined values are AFORK, ASU, ACOMPAT, ACORE, and AXSIG.
+	 * Defined values are AFORK, ASU, ACOMPAT, ACORE, AXSIG, and AXOOM.
 	 */
 	__u8	ac_flag;		/* Record flags */
 
diff --git a/include/linux/acct.h b/include/linux/acct.h
index 882dc72..bbb5d7c 100644
--- a/include/linux/acct.h
+++ b/include/linux/acct.h
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct acct_v3
 #define ACOMPAT		0x04	/* ... used compatibility mode (VAX only not used) */
 #define ACORE		0x08	/* ... dumped core */
 #define AXSIG		0x10	/* ... was killed by a signal */
+#define AXOOM		0x20	/* ... was killed by OOM killer */
 
 #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
 #define ACCT_BYTEORDER	0x80	/* accounting file is big endian */
diff --git a/include/linux/taskstats.h b/include/linux/taskstats.h
index 341dddb..9d57f68 100644
--- a/include/linux/taskstats.h
+++ b/include/linux/taskstats.h
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ struct taskstats {
 	__u32	ac_exitcode;		/* Exit status */
 
 	/* The accounting flags of a task as defined in <linux/acct.h>
-	 * Defined values are AFORK, ASU, ACOMPAT, ACORE, and AXSIG.
+	 * Defined values are AFORK, ASU, ACOMPAT, ACORE, AXSIG, and AXOOM.
 	 */
 	__u8	ac_flag;		/* Record flags */
 	__u8	ac_nice;		/* task_nice */
diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index a6605ca..5830423 100644
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -632,6 +632,8 @@ void acct_collect(long exitcode, int group_dead)
 		pacct->ac_flag |= ACORE;
 	if (current->flags & PF_SIGNALED)
 		pacct->ac_flag |= AXSIG;
+	if (test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_MEMDIE))
+		pacct->ac_flag |= AXOOM;
 	pacct->ac_utime = cputime_add(pacct->ac_utime, current->utime);
 	pacct->ac_stime = cputime_add(pacct->ac_stime, current->stime);
 	pacct->ac_minflt += current->min_flt;
diff --git a/kernel/tsacct.c b/kernel/tsacct.c
index 00d59d0..46a816a 100644
--- a/kernel/tsacct.c
+++ b/kernel/tsacct.c
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ void bacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *tsk)
 		stats->ac_flag |= ACORE;
 	if (tsk->flags & PF_SIGNALED)
 		stats->ac_flag |= AXSIG;
+	if (test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_MEMDIE))
+		stats->ac_flag |= AXOOM;
 	stats->ac_nice	 = task_nice(tsk);
 	stats->ac_sched	 = tsk->policy;
 	stats->ac_pid	 = tsk->pid;
-- 
1.6.5.2

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