linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix OOM killing processes wrongly thought MPOL

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Message-ID: <20070418212327.GT2986@holomorphy.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:23:27 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@...r.sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix OOM killing processes wrongly thought MPOL_BIND

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:35:22PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I only have CONFIG_NUMA=y for build testing: surprised when trying a memhog
> to see lots of other processes killed with "No available memory (MPOL_BIND)".
> memhog is killed correctly once we initialize nodemask in constrained_alloc().
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
> ---
> Perhaps appropriate for 2.6.20-stable too - regression since 2.6.19.

This is a clear fix for an uninitialized variable.


Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@...cle.com>


-- wli
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