From: Nick Piggin Clean up the OOM killer messages to be more consistent. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/oom_kill.c | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-cleanup-messages mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-cleanup-messages +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ static struct task_struct *select_bad_pr * flag though it's unlikely that we select a process with CAP_SYS_RAW_IO * set. */ -static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, const char *message) +static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, int verbose) { if (is_init(p)) { WARN_ON(1); @@ -278,10 +278,8 @@ static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_ return; } - if (message) { - printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Killed process %d (%s).\n", - message, p->pid, p->comm); - } + if (verbose) + printk(KERN_ERR "Killed process %d (%s)\n", p->pid, p->comm); /* * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to @@ -294,7 +292,7 @@ static void __oom_kill_task(struct task_ force_sig(SIGKILL, p); } -static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, const char *message) +static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p) { struct mm_struct *mm; struct task_struct *g, *q; @@ -321,15 +319,15 @@ static int oom_kill_task(struct task_str return 1; } while_each_thread(g, q); - __oom_kill_task(p, message); + __oom_kill_task(p, 1); /* * kill all processes that share the ->mm (i.e. all threads), - * but are in a different thread group + * but are in a different thread group. */ do_each_thread(g, q) { if (q->mm == mm && q->tgid != p->tgid) - __oom_kill_task(q, message); + __oom_kill_task(q, 1); } while_each_thread(g, q); return 0; @@ -346,21 +344,22 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_ * its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly */ if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) { - __oom_kill_task(p, NULL); + __oom_kill_task(p, 0); return 0; } - printk(KERN_ERR "Out of Memory: Kill process %d (%s) score %li" - " and children.\n", p->pid, p->comm, points); + printk(KERN_ERR "%s: kill process %d (%s) score %li or a child\n", + message, p->pid, p->comm, points); + /* Try to kill a child first */ list_for_each(tsk, &p->children) { c = list_entry(tsk, struct task_struct, sibling); if (c->mm == p->mm) continue; - if (!oom_kill_task(c, message)) + if (!oom_kill_task(c)) return 0; } - return oom_kill_task(p, message); + return oom_kill_task(p); } static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(oom_notify_list); _