mempolicy: mPOL_PREFERRED cleanups for "local allocation"
Here are a couple of "cleanups" for MPOL_PREFERRED behavior when
v.preferred_node < 0 -- i.e., "local allocation":
1) [do_]get_mempolicy() calls the now renamed get_policy_nodemask()
to fetch the nodemask associated with a policy. Currently,
get_policy_nodemask() returns the set of nodes with memory, when
the policy 'mode' is 'PREFERRED, and the preferred_node is < 0.
Change to return an empty nodemask, as this is what was specified
to achieve "local allocation".
2) When a task is moved into a [new] cpuset, mpol_rebind_policy() is
called to adjust any task and vma policy nodes to be valid in the
new cpuset. However, when the policy is MPOL_PREFERRED, and the
preferred_node is <0, no rebind is necessary. The "local allocation"
indication is valid in any cpuset. Existing code will "do the right
thing" because node_remap() will just return the argument node when
it is outside of the valid range of node ids. However, I think it is
clearer and cleaner to skip the remap explicitly in this case.
3) mpol_to_str() produces a printable, "human readable" string from a
struct mempolicy. For MPOL_PREFERRED with preferred_node <0, show
"local", as this indicates local allocation, as the task migrates
among nodes. Note that this matches the usage of "local allocation"
in libnuma() and numactl. Without this change, I believe that node_set()
[via set_bit()] will set bit 31, resulting in a misleading display.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>