oom: add sysctl to enable task memory dump

Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_dump_tasks', that enables the kernel to produce a
dump of all system tasks (excluding kernel threads) when performing an
OOM-killing.  Information includes pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu,
oom_adj score, and name.

This is helpful for determining why there was an OOM condition and which
rogue task caused it.

It is configurable so that large systems, such as those with several
thousand tasks, do not incur a performance penalty associated with dumping
data they may not desire.

If an OOM was triggered as a result of a memory controller, the tasklist
shall be filtered to exclude tasks that are not a member of the same
cgroup.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 86daaa26d120..8c98d8147d88 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ extern int sysctl_overcommit_memory;
 extern int sysctl_overcommit_ratio;
 extern int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
 extern int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
+extern int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks;
 extern int max_threads;
 extern int core_uses_pid;
 extern int suid_dumpable;
@@ -871,6 +872,14 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                 .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
         },
         {
+                .ctl_name       = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+                .procname       = "oom_dump_tasks",
+                .data           = &sysctl_oom_dump_tasks,
+                .maxlen         = sizeof(sysctl_oom_dump_tasks),
+                .mode           = 0644,
+                .proc_handler   = &proc_dointvec,
+        },
+        {
                 .ctl_name       = VM_OVERCOMMIT_RATIO,
                 .procname       = "overcommit_ratio",
                 .data           = &sysctl_overcommit_ratio,