[patch -mm v2] cpusets: allow TIF_MEMDIE threads to allocate anywhere

2007-04-23 Thread David Rientjes
OOM killed tasks have access to memory reserves as specified by the TIF_MEMDIE flag in the hopes that it will quickly exit. If such a task has memory allocations constrained by cpusets, we may encounter a deadlock if a blocking task cannot exit because it cannot allocate the necessary memory. We

[patch -mm v2] cpusets: allow TIF_MEMDIE threads to allocate anywhere

2007-04-23 Thread David Rientjes
OOM killed tasks have access to memory reserves as specified by the TIF_MEMDIE flag in the hopes that it will quickly exit. If such a task has memory allocations constrained by cpusets, we may encounter a deadlock if a blocking task cannot exit because it cannot allocate the necessary memory. We