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Commit b43a57bb authored by Kirill Korotaev's avatar Kirill Korotaev Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] OOM can panic due to processes stuck in __alloc_pages()


OOM can panic due to the processes stuck in __alloc_pages() doing infinite
rebalance loop while no memory can be reclaimed.  OOM killer tries to kill
some processes, but unfortunetaly, rebalance label was moved by someone
below the TIF_MEMDIE check, so buddy allocator doesn't see that process is
OOM-killed and it can simply fail the allocation :/

Observed in reality on RHEL4(2.6.9)+OpenVZ kernel when a user doing some
memory allocation tricks triggered OOM panic.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDenis Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent a3eea484
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