cpusets: allow TIF_MEMDIE threads to allocate anywhere
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 allow tasks that have the TIF_MEMDIE flag to allocate memory anywhere, including outside its cpuset restriction, so that it can quickly die regardless of whether it is __GFP_HARDWALL. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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