From: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: fix stale comment in constrained_alloc()
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:06:54 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260813030654.320269-1-ye.liu@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
The comment above the __GFP_THISNODE check in constrained_alloc()
is stale and inaccurate: it references __GFP_NOFAIL (which is not
checked here), claims the OOM killer does "random task kill" (it
uses badness scores), and mentions CONSTRAINT_THISNODE (which was
never added to the enum). Replace it with a description that
matches the actual code behavior.
Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 5f372f6e26fa..4b5c70aaece4 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -268,9 +268,9 @@ static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct oom_control *oc)
if (!oc->zonelist)
return CONSTRAINT_NONE;
/*
- * Reach here only when __GFP_NOFAIL is used. So, we should avoid
- * to kill current.We have to random task kill in this case.
- * Hopefully, CONSTRAINT_THISNODE...but no way to handle it, now.
+ * __GFP_THISNODE means the allocation is restricted to a single node.
+ * There is no dedicated constraint type for this case, so return
+ * CONSTRAINT_NONE and let the normal OOM handling proceed.
*/
if (oc->gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE)
return CONSTRAINT_NONE;
--
2.25.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-13 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-13 3:06 Ye Liu [this message]
2026-08-13 8:43 ` [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: fix stale comment in constrained_alloc() Michal Hocko
2026-08-13 9:50 ` Ye Liu
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