linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_killer: Add task UID to info message on an oom kill

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Message-ID: <20190428224907.GC956@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:49:07 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Joel Savitz <jsavitz@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rafael Aquini <aquini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_killer: Add task UID to info message on an oom
 kill

On Wed 24-04-19 14:20:13, Joel Savitz wrote:
> In the event of an oom kill, useful information about the killed
> process is printed to dmesg. Users, especially system administrators,
> will find it useful to immediately see the UID of the process.
> 
> In the following example, abuse_the_ram is the name of a program
> that attempts to iteratively allocate all available memory until it is
> stopped by force.

There was a more general rework of this message
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542799799-36184-1-git-send-email-ufo19890607@gmail.com
but I do not see it merged into Andrew's tree. Could you have a look and
pursue it, please?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs