On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 8034909faad2..94b04c1e894a 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2766,8 +2766,13 @@ __alloc_pages_may_oom(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int 
> order,
>                       goto out;
>       }
>       /* Exhausted what can be done so it's blamo time */
> -     if (out_of_memory(&oc) || WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
> +     if (out_of_memory(&oc) || WARN_ON_ONCE(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)) {
>               *did_some_progress = 1;
> +
> +             if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL)
> +                     page = get_page_from_freelist(gfp_mask, order,
> +                                     ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, ac);
> +     }
>  out:
>       mutex_unlock(&oom_lock);
>       return page;

Well, sure, that's one way to do it, but for cpuset users, wouldn't this 
lead to a depletion of the first system zone since you've dropped 
ALLOC_CPUSET and are doing ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS in the same call?  
get_page_from_freelist() shouldn't be doing any balancing over the set of 
allowed zones.  Can you justify depleting memory reserves on a zone 
outside of the set of allowed cpuset mems rather than trying to drop 
ALLOC_CPUSET first?
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