oom: do not dump task state for non thread group leaders
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:53:29 +0000 (12:53 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:41:18 +0000 (15:41 -0800)
When /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks is enabled, it's only necessary to dump
task state information for thread group leaders.  The kernel log gets
quickly overwhelmed on machines with a massive number of threads by
dumping non-thread group leaders.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/oom_kill.c

index 64e5b4bcd964cd912b5a5f6b22dc392621269d84..2846a58e5de980ddf0716740c8c5c29689610939 100644 (file)
@@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
                        continue;
                if (mem && !task_in_mem_cgroup(p, mem))
                        continue;
+               if (!thread_group_leader(p))
+                       continue;
 
                task_lock(p);
                printk(KERN_INFO "[%5d] %5d %5d %8lu %8lu %3d     %3d %s\n",