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

Chris Down
2020-06-17T14:08:59Z

Michal Hocko writes:
>and it makes some sense. Except for the root memcg where we do not
>account any memory. Adding if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)) return false;
>should do the trick. The same is the case for mem_cgroup_below_low.
>Could you give it a try please just to confirm?

Oh, of course :-) This seems more likely than what I proposed, and would be
great to test.