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

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Message-ID: <20200617210935.GA578452@chrisdown.name>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jun 2020 22:09:35 +0100
From:   Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
To:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        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>,
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        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>,
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        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

Naresh Kamboju writes:
>After this patch applied the reported issue got fixed.

Great! Thank you Naresh and Michal for helping to get to the bottom of this :-)

I'll send out a new version tomorrow with the fixes applied and both of you 
credited in the changelog for the detection and fix.