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Modify the vm.panic_on_oom sysctl to take a count of events.

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Currently, the vm.panic_on_oom sysctl is a boolean which controls the
behavior of the VM system when it encounters an out-of-memory situation.
If set to 0, the VM system kills the largest process. If set to any other
value, the VM system will initiate a panic.

This change makes the sysctl a count of events. If set to 0, the VM system
kills the largest process. If set to any other value, the VM system will
kill the largest process until it has seen the specified number of
out-of-memory events. Once it reaches the specified number of events, it
will initiate a panic.

This change is helpful in capturing cores when the system is in a perpetual
cycle of out-of-memory events (as opposed to just hitting one or two
sporadic out-of-memory events).

Reviewed by:	kib
MFC after:	2 weeks
Sponsored by:	Netflix
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23601
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Jonathan T. Looney 2020-02-10 18:06:38 +00:00
parent 0d3f465b5d
commit 3c200db9d2
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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sys/vm/vm_pageout.c
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@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int vm_panic_on_oom = 0;
SYSCTL_INT(_vm, OID_AUTO, panic_on_oom,
CTLFLAG_RWTUN, &vm_panic_on_oom, 0,
"panic on out of memory instead of killing the largest process");
"Panic on the given number of out-of-memory errors instead of killing the largest process");
SYSCTL_INT(_vm, OID_AUTO, pageout_update_period,
CTLFLAG_RWTUN, &vm_pageout_update_period, 0,
@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ vm_pageout_oom(int shortage)
}
sx_sunlock(&allproc_lock);
if (bigproc != NULL) {
if (vm_panic_on_oom != 0)
if (vm_panic_on_oom != 0 && --vm_panic_on_oom == 0)
panic("out of swap space");
PROC_LOCK(bigproc);
killproc(bigproc, "out of swap space");