linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/4] mm, oom: ensure sysrq+f always passes valid zonelist

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Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:50:49 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] mm, oom: ensure sysrq+f always passes valid zonelist

On Wed 14-11-12 01:15:19, David Rientjes wrote:
> With hotpluggable and memoryless nodes, it's possible that node 0 will
> not be online, so use the first online node's zonelist rather than
> hardcoding node 0 to pass a zonelist with all zones to the oom killer.

Makes sense although I haven't seen a machine with no 0 node yet.
According to 13808910 this is indeed possible.

> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

> ---
>  drivers/tty/sysrq.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
> --- a/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/sysrq.c
> @@ -346,7 +346,8 @@ static struct sysrq_key_op sysrq_term_op = {
>  
>  static void moom_callback(struct work_struct *ignored)
>  {
> -	out_of_memory(node_zonelist(0, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL, 0, NULL, true);
> +	out_of_memory(node_zonelist(first_online_node, GFP_KERNEL), GFP_KERNEL,
> +		      0, NULL, true);
>  }
>  
>  static DECLARE_WORK(moom_work, moom_callback);
> 
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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