Re: [PATCH] fix OOM killing processes wrongly thought MPOL_BIND

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Wed Apr 18 2007 - 17:23:26 EST


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 <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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 <bill.irwin@xxxxxxxxxx>


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