From: Janet Morgan <janetmor@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:14:56 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] add OOM debug
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc1~68^2~582^2~145
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=578c2fd6a7f378434655e5c480e23152a3994404;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] add OOM debug

This patch provides more debug info when the system is OOM.  It displays
memory stats (basically sysrq-m info) from __alloc_pages() when page
allocation fails and during OOM kill.

Thanks to Dave Jones for coming up with the idea.

Signed-off-by: Janet Morgan <janetmor@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 4bbb1cb104..59666d905f 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -258,6 +258,10 @@ void out_of_memory(unsigned int __nocast gfp_mask)
 	struct mm_struct *mm = NULL;
 	task_t * p;
 
+	printk("oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x%x\n", gfp_mask);
+	/* print memory stats */
+	show_mem();
+
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 retry:
 	p = select_bad_process();
@@ -268,12 +272,9 @@ retry:
 	/* Found nothing?!?! Either we hang forever, or we panic. */
 	if (!p) {
 		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
-		show_free_areas();
 		panic("Out of memory and no killable processes...\n");
 	}
 
-	printk("oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x%x\n", gfp_mask);
-	show_free_areas();
 	mm = oom_kill_process(p);
 	if (!mm)
 		goto retry;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 10446a6463..be05d17bd7 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -935,6 +935,7 @@ nopage:
 			" order:%d, mode:0x%x\n",
 			p->comm, order, gfp_mask);
 		dump_stack();
+		show_mem();
 	}
 	return NULL;
 got_pg: