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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106211205290.30481@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:07:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@...hat.com>
cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>, lwoodman@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom: add uid to "Killed process" message

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Frantisek Hrbata wrote:

> I guess the uid of the killed process can be identified from the dump_tasks
> output, where it is presented along with other info. I think it is handy
> to have the uid info directly in the "Killed process" message. 
> 
> This is used/requested by one of our customers and since I think it's a good
> idea to have the uid info presented, I posted the patch here to see what do you
> think about it.
> 

I don't feel strongly about it, but I think you could justify adding a lot 
of the same information from the tasklist dump to the single "Killed 
process" message.  The optimal way of getting this information would be 
from the tasklist dump.
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