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@@ -852,13 +852,25 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
The number of times the cgroup's memory usage was
about to go over the max boundary. If direct reclaim
- fails to bring it down, the OOM killer is invoked.
+ fails to bring it down, the cgroup goes to OOM state.
oom
- The number of times the OOM killer has been invoked in
- the cgroup. This may not exactly match the number of
- processes killed but should generally be close.
+ The number of time the cgroup's memory usage was
+ reached the limit and allocation was about to fail.
+
+ Depending on context result could be invocation of OOM
+ killer and retrying allocation or failing alloction.
+
+ Failed allocation in its turn could be returned into
+ userspace as -ENOMEM or siletly ignored in cases like
+ disk readahead. For now OOM in memory cgroup kills
+ tasks iff shortage has happened inside page fault.
+
+ oom_kill
+
+ The number of processes belonging to this cgroup
+ killed by any kind of OOM killer.
memory.stat