linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10] OOM Debug print selection and additional information

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Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:38:27 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc:     Edward Chron <echron@...sta.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, colona@...sta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] OOM Debug print selection and additional
 information

On Tue 27-08-19 19:10:18, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2019/08/27 16:15, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > All that being said, I do not think this is something we want to merge
> > without a really _strong_ usecase to back it.
> 
> Like the sender's domain "arista.com" suggests, some of information is
> geared towards networking devices, and ability to report OOM information
> in a way suitable for automatic recording/analyzing (e.g. without using
> shell prompt, let alone manually typing SysRq commands) would be convenient
> for unattended devices.

Why cannot the remote end of the logging identify the host. It has to
connect somewhere anyway, right? I also do assume that a log collector
already does store each log with host id of some form.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs