From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992760AbXDRVXK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:23:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992762AbXDRVXK (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:23:10 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:37888 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992760AbXDRVXJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:23:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:23:27 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix OOM killing processes wrongly thought MPOL_BIND Message-ID: <20070418212327.GT2986@holomorphy.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > --- > 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 -- wli