Re: [PATCH] mm/page_owner: print largest memory consumer when OOM panic occurs

From: Qian Cai
Date: Thu Dec 26 2019 - 00:53:56 EST




> On Dec 25, 2019, at 11:01 PM, Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> That is what the patch does -- targeting on the memory leakage which causes an OOM kernel panic, so the greatest consumer information helps (the amount of leakage is big enough to cause an OOM kernel panic)
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> I've posted the number of real problems since 2019/5 I solved by this approach.

The point is in order to make your debugging patch upstream, it has to be general useful. Right now, it feels rather situational for me for the reasons given in the previous emails.