From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> constrained_alloc calculates the size of the oom domain by using node_spanned_pages which is incorrect because this is the full range of the physical memory range that the numa node occupies rather than the memory that backs that range which is represented by node_present_pages. Sparsely populated nodes (e.g. after memory hot remove or simply sparse due to memory layout) can have really a large difference between the two. This shouldn't really cause any real user observable problems because the oom calculates a ratio against totalpages and used memory cannot exceed present pages but it is confusing and wrong from code point of view. Noticed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index eda2e2a0bdc6..16af3da97d08 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct oom_control *oc) !nodes_subset(node_states[N_MEMORY], *oc->nodemask)) { oc->totalpages = total_swap_pages; for_each_node_mask(nid, *oc->nodemask) - oc->totalpages += node_spanned_pages(nid); + oc->totalpages += node_present_pages(nid); return CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY; } @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static enum oom_constraint constrained_alloc(struct oom_control *oc) if (cpuset_limited) { oc->totalpages = total_swap_pages; for_each_node_mask(nid, cpuset_current_mems_allowed) - oc->totalpages += node_spanned_pages(nid); + oc->totalpages += node_present_pages(nid); return CONSTRAINT_CPUSET; } return CONSTRAINT_NONE; -- 2.20.1