oom-kill: fix NUMA constraint check with nodemask
authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hioryu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:45:33 +0000 (16:45 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:19:57 +0000 (07:19 -0800)
commit4365a5676fa3aa1d5ae6c90c22a0044f09ba584e
tree5b9914ccbdcf2aa695473421e71f6299fbe78cef
parent3b4798cbc13dd8d1150aa6377f97f0e11450a67d
oom-kill: fix NUMA constraint check with nodemask

Fix node-oriented allocation handling in oom-kill.c I myself think of this
as a bugfix not as an ehnancement.

In these days, things are changed as
  - alloc_pages() eats nodemask as its arguments, __alloc_pages_nodemask().
  - mempolicy don't maintain its own private zonelists.
  (And cpuset doesn't use nodemask for __alloc_pages_nodemask())

So, current oom-killer's check function is wrong.

This patch does
  - check nodemask, if nodemask && nodemask doesn't cover all
    node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY], this is CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY.
  - Scan all zonelist under nodemask, if it hits cpuset's wall
    this faiulre is from cpuset.
And
  - modifies the caller of out_of_memory not to call oom if __GFP_THISNODE.
    This doesn't change "current" behavior. If callers use __GFP_THISNODE
    it should handle "page allocation failure" by itself.

  - handle __GFP_NOFAIL+__GFP_THISNODE path.
    This is something like a FIXME but this gfpmask is not used now.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hioryu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/sysrq.c
include/linux/oom.h
mm/oom_kill.c
mm/page_alloc.c