tree f3563927615c6b9c260f7ca84567c7bca2dac91f
parent 4ff1ffb4870b007b86f21e5f27eeb11498c4c077
author Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> 1159252289 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1159285728 -0700

[PATCH] oom: cpuset hint

cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap does not always indicate that killing a task will
not free any memory we for us.  For example, we may be asking for an
allocation from _anywhere_ in the machine, or the task in question may be
pinning memory that is outside its cpuset.  Fix this by just causing
cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap to reduce the badness rather than disallow it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>