linux-ext4 - Re: mm: mkfs.ext4 invoked oom-killer on i386

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Date:   Fri, 22 May 2020 02:23:09 +0530
From:   Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
To:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
Cc:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>,
        "Linux F2FS DEV, Mailing List" 
        <linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>, lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm: mkfs.ext4 invoked oom-killer on i386 - pagecache_get_page

My apology !
As per the test results history this problem started happening from
Bad : next-20200430 (still reproducible on next-20200519)
Good : next-20200429

The git tree / tag used for testing is from linux next-20200430 tag and reverted
following three patches and oom-killer problem fixed.

Revert "mm, memcg: avoid stale protection values when cgroup is above
protection"
Revert "mm, memcg: decouple e{low,min} state mutations from protectinn checks"
Revert "mm-memcg-decouple-elowmin-state-mutations-from-protection-checks-fix"

Ref tree:
https://github.com/roxell/linux/commits/my-next-20200430

Build images:
https://builds.tuxbuild.com/whyTLI1O8s5HiILwpLTLtg/

Test log:
https://lkft.validation.linaro.org/scheduler/job/1444321#L1164

- Naresh