Re: [patch 6/7 -mm] oom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations

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On 02/10/2010 11:32 AM, David Rientjes wrote:

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1914,6 +1914,9 @@ rebalance:
  	 * running out of options and have to consider going OOM
  	 */
  	if (!did_some_progress) {
+		/* The oom killer won't necessarily free lowmem */
+		if (high_zoneidx<  ZONE_NORMAL)
+			goto nopage;
  		if ((gfp_mask&  __GFP_FS)&&  !(gfp_mask&  __GFP_NORETRY)) {
  			if (oom_killer_disabled)
  				goto nopage;

Are there architectures that only have one memory zone?

s390 or one of the other virtualized-only architectures perhaps?

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