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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix OOM killing processes wrongly thought MPOL_BIND
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:23:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070418212327.GT2986@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704182022440.11100@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

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@veritas.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@oracle.com>


-- wli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-18 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-18 19:35 [PATCH] fix OOM killing processes wrongly thought MPOL_BIND Hugh Dickins
2007-04-18 21:11 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-04-18 21:23 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-04-19  0:29 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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