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[RFC v3] oom: capture unreclaimable slab info in oom message when kernel panic

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Recently we ran into a oom issue, kernel panic due to no killable process.
The dmesg shows huge unreclaimable slabs used almost 100% memory, but kdump doesn't capture vmcore due to some reason.

So, it may sound better to capture unreclaimable slab info in oom message when kernel panic to aid trouble shooting and cover the corner case.
Since kernel already panic, so capturing more information sounds worthy and doesn't bother normal oom killer.

With the patchset, tools/vm/slabinfo has a new option, "-U", to show unreclaimable slab only.

And, oom will print all non zero (num_objs * size != 0) unreclaimable slabs in oom killer message.

For details, please see the commit log for each commit.

Changelog v2 —> v3:
* Show used size and total size of each kmem cache per David’s comment

Changelog v1 —> v2:
* Removed the original patch 1 (“mm: slab: output reclaimable flag in /proc/slabinfo”) since Christoph suggested it might break the compatibility and /proc/slabinfo is legacy
* Added Christoph’s Acked-by
* Removed acquiring slab_mutex per Tetsuo’s comment


Yang Shi (2):
      tools: slabinfo: add "-U" option to show unreclaimable slabs only
      mm: oom: show unreclaimable slab info when kernel panic

 mm/oom_kill.c       | 13 +++++++++++--
 mm/slab.c           |  1 +
 mm/slab.h           |  7 +++++++
 mm/slab_common.c    | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/slub.c           |  1 +
 tools/vm/slabinfo.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 6 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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[RFC v3] oom: capture unreclaimable slab info in oom message when kernel panic "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-20 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 2/2] mm: oom: show unreclaimable slab info when kernel panic "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-20 21:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: oom: show unreclaimable slab info when kernel  panic David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2017-09-20 23:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: oom: show unreclaimable slab info when kernel  panic "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-20 23:40 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] tools: slabinfo: add "-U" option to show unreclaimable slabs only "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-20 21:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools: slabinfo: add "-U" option to show unreclaimable  slabs only David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> - 2017-09-20 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools: slabinfo: add "-U" option to show  unreclaimable slabs only "Yang Shi" <yang.s@alibaba-inc.com> - 2017-09-20 23:30 +0200

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