linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/6] mm, page_alloc: fix more premature OOM due to race with cpuset update

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Message-ID: <3dc5ebcf-f8da-99ca-1bd4-6ee734382443@suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:07:21 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6] mm, page_alloc: fix more premature OOM due to race with
 cpuset update

On 04/13/2017 08:06 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> Did you really mean node_zonelist() in both the instances above. Because
>> that function just picks up either FALLBACK_ZONELIST or NOFALLBACK_ZONELIST
>> depending upon the passed GFP flags in the allocation request and does not
>> deal with ignoring the passed nodemask.
> 
> Oops, I meant policy_zonelist(), thanks for noticing.

Nah, policy_nodemask()... I need coffee.