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

Chris Down
2020-06-18T12:37:43Z

Yafang Shao writes:
>On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:09 AM Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>As we have already found that the usage around memory.{emin, elow} has
>many limitations, I think memory.{emin, elow} should be used for
>memcg-tree internally only, that means they can only be used to
>calculate the protection of a memcg in a specified memcg-tree but
>should not be exposed to other MM parts.

I agree that the current semantics are mentally taxing and we should generally
avoid exposing the implementation details outside of memcg where possible. Do
you have a suggested rework? :-)