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We have received a hard to explain oom report from a customer.  The oom
triggered regardless there is a lot of free memory:

  PoolThread invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x280da, order=0, oom_adj=0, oom_score_adj=0
  PoolThread cpuset=/ mems_allowed=0-7
  Pid: 30055, comm: PoolThread Tainted: G           E X 3.0.101-80-default #1
  Call Trace:
    dump_trace+0x75/0x300
    dump_stack+0x69/0x6f
    dump_header+0x8e/0x110
    oom_kill_process+0xa6/0x350
    out_of_memory+0x2b7/0x310
    __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x7dd/0x820
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1e9/0x200
    alloc_pages_vma+0xe1/0x290
    do_anonymous_page+0x13e/0x300
    do_page_fault+0x1fd/0x4c0
    page_fault+0x25/0x30
  [...]
  active_anon:1135959151 inactive_anon:1051962 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:13093 inactive_file:222506 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:262144 dirty:2 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:432672819 slab_reclaimable:7917 slab_unreclaimable:95308
   mapped:261139 shmem:166297 pagetables:2228282 bounc...