Re: [Bug #14141] order 2 page allocation failures in iwlagn

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon Oct 05 2009 - 20:06:55 EST


On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Frans Pop wrote:

> And the winner is:
> 2ff05b2b4eac2e63d345fc731ea151a060247f53 is first bad commit
> commit 2ff05b2b4eac2e63d345fc731ea151a060247f53
> Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Jun 16 15:32:56 2009 -0700
>
> oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct
>
> I'm confident that the bisection is good. The test case was very reliable
> while zooming in on the merge from akpm.
>

I doubt it for two reasons: (i) this commit was reverted in 0753ba0 since
2.6.31-rc7 and is no longer in the kernel, and (ii) these are GFP_ATOMIC
allocations which would be unaffected by oom killer scores.
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