Re: mm, vmscan: commit makes PAE kernel crash nightly (bisected)

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Jan 24 2017 - 07:55:06 EST


On Sun 22-01-17 18:45:59, Trevor Cordes wrote:
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> Also, completely separate from your patch I ran mhocko's 4.9 tree with
> mem=2G to see if lower ram amount would help, but it didn't. Even with
> 2G the system oom and hung same as usual. So far the only thing that
> helps at all was the cgroup_disable=memory option, which makes the
> problem disappear completely for me.

OK, can we reduce the problem space slightly more and could you boot
with kmem accounting enabled? cgroup.memory=nokmem,nosocket
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs