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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/oom_kill.c | 2 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 268ab08222dd..f8bc802d70b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ list. NOTE: Reclaim does not work for the root cgroup, since we cannot set any limits on the root cgroup. +Note2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic. + 2. Locking The memory controller uses the following hierarchy @@ -379,7 +381,8 @@ The feature can be disabled by NOTE1: Enabling/disabling will fail if the cgroup already has other cgroups created below it. -NOTE2: This feature can be enabled/disabled per subtree. +NOTE2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic in +case of an oom event in any cgroup. 7. Soft limits diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index fc5790d36cd9..6c7d18c53f84 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -573,11 +573,14 @@ Because other nodes' memory may be free. This means system total status may be not fatal yet. If this is set to 2, the kernel panics compulsorily even on the -above-mentioned. +above-mentioned. Even oom happens under memory cgroup, the whole +system panics. The default value is 0. 1 and 2 are for failover of clustering. Please select either according to your policy of failover. +panic_on_oom=2+kdump gives you very strong tool to investigate +why oom happens. You can get snapshot. ============================================================= diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 35755a4156d6..71d10bf52dc8 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -473,6 +473,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(struct mem_cgroup *mem, gfp_t gfp_mask) unsigned long points = 0; struct task_struct *p; + if (sysctl_panic_on_oom == 2) + panic("out of memory(memcg). panic_on_oom is selected.\n"); read_lock(&tasklist_lock); retry: p = select_bad_process(&points, mem); |