linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 4/4] mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:12:27 +0800
From:   "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>
To:     "'Vlastimil Babka'" <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "'Mel Gorman'" <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        "'Ganapatrao Kulkarni'" <gpkulkarni@...il.com>
Cc:     "'Michal Hocko'" <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/4] mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update


On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 6:16 AM Vlastimil Babka wrote: 
> 
> @@ -3802,13 +3811,8 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
>  	 * Also recalculate the starting point for the zonelist iterator or
>  	 * we could end up iterating over non-eligible zones endlessly.
>  	 */
Is the newly added comment still needed?

> -	if (unlikely(ac.nodemask != nodemask)) {
> -no_zone:
> +	if (unlikely(ac.nodemask != nodemask))
>  		ac.nodemask = nodemask;
> -		ac.preferred_zoneref = first_zones_zonelist(ac.zonelist,
> -						ac.high_zoneidx, ac.nodemask);
> -		/* If we have NULL preferred zone, slowpath wll handle that */
> -	}
> 
>  	page = __alloc_pages_slowpath(alloc_mask, order, &ac);
> 
> --
> 2.11.0