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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Jackson <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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