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

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Message-ID: <20200612120904.GA8641@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:09:04 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Cc:     Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>,
        Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
        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

On Fri 12-06-20 15:13:22, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 15:25, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri 29-05-20 11:49:20, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > On Fri 29-05-20 02:56:44, Chris Down wrote:
> > > > Yafang Shao writes:
> > > Agreed. Even if e{low,min} might still have some rough edges I am
> > > completely puzzled how we could end up oom if none of the protection
> > > path triggers which the additional debugging should confirm. Maybe my
> > > debugging patch is incomplete or used incorrectly (maybe it would be
> > > esier to use printk rather than trace_printk?).
> >
> > It would be really great if we could move forward. While the fix (which
> > has been dropped from mmotm) is not super urgent I would really like to
> > understand how it could hit the observed behavior. Can we double check
> > that the debugging patch really doesn't trigger (e.g.
> > s@...ce_printk@...ntk in the first step)?
> 
> Please suggest to me the way to get more debug information
> by providing kernel debug patches and extra kernel configs.
> 
> I have applied your debug patch and tested on top on linux next 20200612
> but did not find any printk output while running mkfs -t ext4 /drive test case.

Have you tried s@...ce_printk@...ntk@ in the patch? AFAIK trace_printk
doesn't dump anything into the printk ring buffer. You would have to
look into trace ring buffer.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs