[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>
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