On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Johannes Weiner wrote:

> out_of_memory() wants the zonelist that was used during allocation,
> not just the random first node's zonelist that's simply picked to
> serialize page fault OOM kills system-wide.
> 
> This would even change how panic_on_oom behaves for page fault OOMs
> (in a completely unpredictable way) if we get CONSTRAINED_CPUSET.
> 
> This change makes no sense to me.
> 

Allocations during fault will be constrained by the cpuset's mems, if we 
are oom then why would we panic when panic_on_oom == 1?
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