linux-kernel - [question] how to figure out OOM reason? should dump slab/vmalloc info when OOM?

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:36:35 +0800
From:	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [question] how to figure out OOM reason? should dump slab/vmalloc
 info when OOM?

When OOM happen, will dump buddy free areas info, hugetlb pages info,
memory state of all eligible tasks, per-cpu memory info.
But do not dump slab/vmalloc info, sometime, it's not enough to figure out the
reason OOM happened.

So, my questions are:
1. Should dump slab/vmalloc info when OOM happen? Though we can get these from proc file,
but usually we do not monitor the logs and check proc file immediately when OOM happened.

2. /proc/$pid/smaps and pagecache info also helpful when OOM, should also be dumped?

3. Without these info, usually how to figure out OOM reason?

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