linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: add option to disable dump

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1510281655010.15960@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:55:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@...hat.com>
cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom_kill: add option to disable dump_stack()

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Aristeu Rozanski wrote:

> Hi Michal,
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 05:20:47PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Yes this is a mess. But I think it is worth cleaning up.
> > dump_stack_print_info (arch independent) has a log level parameter.
> > show_stack_log_lvl (x86) has a loglevel parameter which is unused.
> > 
> > I haven't checked other architectures but the transition doesn't have to
> > be all at once I guess.
> 
> Ok, will keep working on it then.
> 

No objection on changing the loglevel of the stack trace from the oom 
killer and the bonus is that we can avoid yet another tunable, yay!
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