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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2007-05-06 23:50:00 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-07 21:12:55 +0200
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parentmm: fix handling of panic_on_oom when cpusets are in use (diff)
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oom: fix constraint deadlock
Fixes a deadlock in the OOM killer for allocations that are not __GFP_HARDWALL. Before the OOM killer checks for the allocation constraint, it takes callback_mutex. constrained_alloc() iterates through each zone in the allocation zonelist and calls cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() to determine whether an allocation for gfp_mask is possible. If a zone's node is not in the OOM-triggering task's mems_allowed, it is not exiting, and we did not fail on a __GFP_HARDWALL allocation, cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() attempts to take callback_mutex to check the nearest exclusive ancestor of current's cpuset. This results in deadlock. We now take callback_mutex after iterating through the zonelist since we don't need it yet. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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