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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2012-01-10 15:08:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-10 16:30:44 -0800
commit43d2b113241d6797b890318767e0af78e313414b (patch)
tree6f25647f2660f8fca63cc8355b70ad643993dab8 /mm/oom_kill.c
parent6bd4837de96e7d9f9bf33e59117c24fc230862ac (diff)
downloadlinux-43d2b113241d6797b890318767e0af78e313414b.tar.gz
tracepoint: add tracepoints for debugging oom_score_adj
oom_score_adj is used for guarding processes from OOM-Killer.  One of
problem is that it's inherited at fork().  When a daemon set oom_score_adj
and make children, it's hard to know where the value is set.

This patch adds some tracepoints useful for debugging. This patch adds
3 trace points.
  - creating new task
  - renaming a task (exec)
  - set oom_score_adj

To debug, users need to enable some trace pointer. Maybe filtering is useful as

# EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/task/
# echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_newtask/filter
# echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_rename/filter
# echo 1 > $EVENT/enable
# EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/oom/
# echo 1 > $EVENT/enable

output will be like this.
# grep oom /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
bash-7699  [007] d..3  5140.744510: oom_score_adj_update: pid=7699 comm=bash oom_score_adj=-1000
bash-7699  [007] ...1  5151.818022: task_newtask: pid=7729 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
ls-7729  [003] ...2  5151.818504: task_rename: pid=7729 oldcomm=bash newcomm=ls oom_score_adj=-1000
bash-7699  [002] ...1  5175.701468: task_newtask: pid=7730 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
grep-7730  [007] ...2  5175.701993: task_rename: pid=7730 oldcomm=bash newcomm=grep oom_score_adj=-1000

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/oom_kill.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index eeb27e27dce3..7c122faa05c5 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/ptrace.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/ftrace.h>
+
+#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
+#include <trace/events/oom.h>
 
 int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
 int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
@@ -55,6 +59,7 @@ void compare_swap_oom_score_adj(int old_val, int new_val)
 	spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
 	if (current->signal->oom_score_adj == old_val)
 		current->signal->oom_score_adj = new_val;
+	trace_oom_score_adj_update(current);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
 }
 
@@ -74,6 +79,7 @@ int test_set_oom_score_adj(int new_val)
 	spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
 	old_val = current->signal->oom_score_adj;
 	current->signal->oom_score_adj = new_val;
+	trace_oom_score_adj_update(current);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
 
 	return old_val;