tracepoint: add tracepoints for debugging oom_score_adj

oom_score_adj is used for guarding processes from OOM-Killer.  One of
problem is that it's inherited at fork().  When a daemon set oom_score_adj
and make children, it's hard to know where the value is set.

This patch adds some tracepoints useful for debugging. This patch adds
3 trace points.
  - creating new task
  - renaming a task (exec)
  - set oom_score_adj

To debug, users need to enable some trace pointer. Maybe filtering is useful as

# EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/task/
# echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_newtask/filter
# echo "oom_score_adj != 0" > $EVENT/task_rename/filter
# echo 1 > $EVENT/enable
# EVENT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/oom/
# echo 1 > $EVENT/enable

output will be like this.
# grep oom /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
bash-7699  [007] d..3  5140.744510: oom_score_adj_update: pid=7699 comm=bash oom_score_adj=-1000
bash-7699  [007] ...1  5151.818022: task_newtask: pid=7729 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
ls-7729  [003] ...2  5151.818504: task_rename: pid=7729 oldcomm=bash newcomm=ls oom_score_adj=-1000
bash-7699  [002] ...1  5175.701468: task_newtask: pid=7730 comm=bash clone_flags=1200011 oom_score_adj=-1000
grep-7730  [007] ...2  5175.701993: task_rename: pid=7730 oldcomm=bash newcomm=grep oom_score_adj=-1000

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2012-01-10 15:08:09 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 43d2b11324
6 changed files with 113 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/ptrace.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
#include <linux/ftrace.h>
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/oom.h>
int sysctl_panic_on_oom;
int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
@ -55,6 +59,7 @@ void compare_swap_oom_score_adj(int old_val, int new_val)
spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
if (current->signal->oom_score_adj == old_val)
current->signal->oom_score_adj = new_val;
trace_oom_score_adj_update(current);
spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
}
@ -74,6 +79,7 @@ int test_set_oom_score_adj(int new_val)
spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
old_val = current->signal->oom_score_adj;
current->signal->oom_score_adj = new_val;
trace_oom_score_adj_update(current);
spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
return old_val;