diff --git a/artiq/firmware/liballoc_artiq/lib.rs b/artiq/firmware/liballoc_artiq/lib.rs
index 37b39c561..78cc8a56d 100644
--- a/artiq/firmware/liballoc_artiq/lib.rs
+++ b/artiq/firmware/liballoc_artiq/lib.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #![no_std]
 #![allocator]
 
-use core::{mem, ptr, cmp};
+use core::{mem, ptr, cmp, fmt};
 
 // The minimum alignment guaranteed by the architecture.
 const MIN_ALIGN: usize = 4;
@@ -122,3 +122,37 @@ pub extern fn __rust_reallocate_inplace(_ptr: *mut u8, old_size: usize, _size: u
 pub extern fn __rust_usable_size(size: usize, _align: usize) -> usize {
     size
 }
+
+pub fn debug_dump(f: &mut fmt::Write) -> fmt::Result {
+    unsafe {
+        let mut total_busy = 0;
+        let mut total_idle = 0;
+        let mut total_meta = 0;
+
+        write!(f, "Heap view:\n")?;
+
+        let mut curr = ROOT;
+        while !curr.is_null() {
+            total_meta += mem::size_of::<Header>();
+
+            let desc = match (*curr).magic {
+                MAGIC_FREE => { total_idle += (*curr).size; "IDLE" },
+                MAGIC_BUSY => { total_busy += (*curr).size; "BUSY" },
+                _ => "!!!!"
+            };
+
+            write!(f, "{} {:p} + {:#x} + {:#x} -> {:p}\n",
+                   desc, curr, mem::size_of::<Header>(), (*curr).size, (*curr).next)?;
+            match (*curr).magic {
+                MAGIC_FREE | MAGIC_BUSY => (),
+                _ => break
+            }
+
+            curr = (*curr).next;
+        }
+
+        write!(f, " === busy: {:#x} idle: {:#x} meta: {:#x} total: {:#x}\n",
+               total_busy, total_idle, total_meta,
+               total_busy + total_idle + total_meta)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/artiq/firmware/runtime/lib.rs b/artiq/firmware/runtime/lib.rs
index c1a745e03..f5a7a16b5 100644
--- a/artiq/firmware/runtime/lib.rs
+++ b/artiq/firmware/runtime/lib.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #![no_std]
-#![feature(compiler_builtins_lib, alloc, oom, repr_simd, lang_items, const_fn)]
+#![feature(compiler_builtins_lib, alloc, oom, repr_simd, lang_items, const_fn,
+           closure_to_fn_coercion)]
 
 extern crate compiler_builtins;
 extern crate alloc;
@@ -169,8 +170,10 @@ pub extern fn main() -> i32 {
         alloc_artiq::seed(&mut _fheap as *mut u8,
                           &_eheap as *const u8 as usize - &_fheap as *const u8 as usize);
 
-        fn oom() -> ! { panic!("out of memory") }
-        alloc::oom::set_oom_handler(oom);
+        alloc::oom::set_oom_handler(|| {
+            alloc_artiq::debug_dump(&mut board::uart_console::Console).unwrap();
+            panic!("out of memory");
+        });
 
         static mut LOG_BUFFER: [u8; 65536] = [0; 65536];
         logger_artiq::BufferLogger::new(&mut LOG_BUFFER[..]).register(startup);
diff --git a/artiq/firmware/runtime/session.rs b/artiq/firmware/runtime/session.rs
index d38ae8570..6cca523b5 100644
--- a/artiq/firmware/runtime/session.rs
+++ b/artiq/firmware/runtime/session.rs
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ fn kern_recv_dotrace(reply: &kern::Message) {
         &kern::LogSlice(_) => debug!("comm<-kern LogSlice(...)"),
         &kern::DmaRecordAppend(data) => {
             if data.len() > 100 {
-                debug!("comm<-kern DmaRecordAppend(...)")
+                debug!("comm<-kern DmaRecordAppend([_; {:#x}])", data.len())
             } else {
                 debug!("comm<-kern {:?}", reply)
             }