staging: lowmemorykiller: Make default lowmemorykiller debug message useful
authorColin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Sat, 30 Jan 2016 06:07:33 +0000 (22:07 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 8 Feb 2016 01:34:58 +0000 (17:34 -0800)
lowmemorykiller debug messages are inscrutable and mostly useful
for debugging the lowmemorykiller, not explaining why a process
was killed.  Make the messages more useful by prefixing them
with "lowmemorykiller: " and explaining in more readable terms
what was killed, who it was killed for, and why it was killed.

The messages now look like:
[   76.997631] lowmemorykiller: Killing 'droid.gallery3d' (2172), adj 1000,
[   76.997635]    to free 27436kB on behalf of 'kswapd0' (29) because
[   76.997638]    cache 122624kB is below limit 122880kB for oom_score_adj 1000
[   76.997641]    Free memory is -53356kB above reserved

A negative number for free memory above reserved means some of the
reserved memory has been used and is being regenerated by kswapd,
which is likely what called the shrinkers.

Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
[jstultz: Minor checkpatch tweaks]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/android/lowmemorykiller.c

index 8b5a4a8..4b8a56c 100644 (file)
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
        int tasksize;
        int i;
        short min_score_adj = OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX + 1;
+       int minfree = 0;
        int selected_tasksize = 0;
        short selected_oom_score_adj;
        int array_size = ARRAY_SIZE(lowmem_adj);
@@ -97,8 +98,8 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
        if (lowmem_minfree_size < array_size)
                array_size = lowmem_minfree_size;
        for (i = 0; i < array_size; i++) {
-               if (other_free < lowmem_minfree[i] &&
-                   other_file < lowmem_minfree[i]) {
+               minfree = lowmem_minfree[i];
+               if (other_free < minfree && other_file < minfree) {
                        min_score_adj = lowmem_adj[i];
                        break;
                }
@@ -153,8 +154,8 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
                selected = p;
                selected_tasksize = tasksize;
                selected_oom_score_adj = oom_score_adj;
-               lowmem_print(2, "select %d (%s), adj %hd, size %d, to kill\n",
-                            p->pid, p->comm, oom_score_adj, tasksize);
+               lowmem_print(2, "select '%s' (%d), adj %hd, size %d, to kill\n",
+                            p->comm, p->pid, oom_score_adj, tasksize);
        }
        if (selected) {
                task_lock(selected);
@@ -167,9 +168,18 @@ static unsigned long lowmem_scan(struct shrinker *s, struct shrink_control *sc)
                if (selected->mm)
                        mark_oom_victim(selected);
                task_unlock(selected);
-               lowmem_print(1, "send sigkill to %d (%s), adj %hd, size %d\n",
-                            selected->pid, selected->comm,
-                            selected_oom_score_adj, selected_tasksize);
+               lowmem_print(1, "Killing '%s' (%d), adj %hd,\n"
+                                "   to free %ldkB on behalf of '%s' (%d) because\n"
+                                "   cache %ldkB is below limit %ldkB for oom_score_adj %hd\n"
+                                "   Free memory is %ldkB above reserved\n",
+                            selected->comm, selected->pid,
+                            selected_oom_score_adj,
+                            selected_tasksize * (long)(PAGE_SIZE / 1024),
+                            current->comm, current->pid,
+                            other_file * (long)(PAGE_SIZE / 1024),
+                            minfree * (long)(PAGE_SIZE / 1024),
+                            min_score_adj,
+                            other_free * (long)(PAGE_SIZE / 1024));
                lowmem_deathpending_timeout = jiffies + HZ;
                rem += selected_tasksize;
        }