Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6] mm, page_alloc: fix more premature OOM due to race with
 cpuset update
To: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 08:07:21 +0200
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On 04/13/2017 08:06 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> Did you really mean node_zonelist() in both the instances above. Because
>> that function just picks up either FALLBACK_ZONELIST or NOFALLBACK_ZONELIST
>> depending upon the passed GFP flags in the allocation request and does not
>> deal with ignoring the passed nodemask.
> 
> Oops, I meant policy_zonelist(), thanks for noticing.

Nah, policy_nodemask()... I need coffee.