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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
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--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- min_unmapped_ratio
- min_slab_ratio
- panic_on_oom
+- oom_dump_tasks
- oom_kill_allocating_task
- mmap_min_address
- numa_zonelist_order
@@ -232,6 +233,27 @@ according to your policy of failover.
=============================================================
+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.
+
+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
+the memory state information for each one. Such systems should not
+be forced to incur a performance penalty in OOM conditions when the
+information may not be desired.
+
+If this is set to non-zero, this information is shown whenever the
+OOM killer actually kills a memory-hogging task.
+
+The default value is 0.
+
+=============================================================
+
oom_kill_allocating_task
This enables or disables killing the OOM-triggering task in