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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 43d2b11324 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 <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2011-11-07 10:13:52 -08:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
crypto
drm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-01-08 13:21:22 -08:00
keys
linux mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge() succeeding in copy_vma() 2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'depends/rmk/restart' into next/cleanup 2012-01-07 11:51:28 +00:00
misc
mtd
net Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2012-01-09 13:08:28 -08:00
pcmcia
rdma rdma/core: Fix sparse warnings 2012-01-04 09:17:45 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi switch ->is_visible() to returning umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:55 -05:00
sound Driver specific changes 2012-01-09 14:39:22 -08:00
target target: remove the unused se_dev_list 2011-12-06 06:00:57 +00:00
trace tracepoint: add tracepoints for debugging oom_score_adj 2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
video ARM: OMAP: HWMOD: Unify DSS resets for OMAPs 2011-11-08 03:16:13 -07:00
xen Merge branch 'driver-core-next' into Linux 3.2 2012-01-06 11:42:52 -08:00
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