Re: [PATCH] sysctl_panic_on_oom broken

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Larry Woodman wrote:

> out_of_memory() does not panic when sysctl_panic_on_oom is set
> if constrained_alloc() does not return CONSTRAINT_NONE.  Instead,
> out_of_memory() kills the current process whenever constrained_alloc()
> returns either CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY or CONSTRAINT_CPUSET.
> This patch fixes this problem:

It recreates the old problem that we OOM while we still have memory 
in other parts of the system.
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