On Fri 12-06-20 15:13:22, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 15:25, Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.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@trace_printk@printk 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@trace_printk@printk@ in the patch? AFAIK trace_printk
doesn't dump anything into the printk ring buffer. You would have to
look into trace ring buffer.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
