2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 82b2da18c45d..b606c2c4dd37 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ information may not be desired.
 If this is set to non-zero, this information is shown whenever the
 OOM killer actually kills a memory-hogging task.
 
-The default value is 0.
+The default value is 1 (enabled).
 
 ==============================================================
 
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 13ceed78bc45..01b5e01e52cb 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
 int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
-int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks;
+int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks = 1;
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zone_scan_lock);
 /* #define DEBUG */