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@@ -491,9 +491,10 @@ oom_dump_tasks
Enables a system-wide task dump (excluding kernel threads) to be
produced when the kernel performs an OOM-killing and includes such
-information as pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, cpu, oom_adj score, and
-name. This is helpful to determine why the OOM killer was invoked
-and to identify the rogue task that caused it.
+information as pid, uid, tgid, vm size, rss, nr_ptes, swapents,
+oom_score_adj score, and name. This is helpful to determine why the
+OOM killer was invoked, to identify the rogue task that caused it,
+and to determine why the OOM killer chose the task it did to kill.
If this is set to zero, this information is suppressed. On very
large systems with thousands of tasks it may not be feasible to dump