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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2008-02-12 13:30:22 +0900
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-11 20:48:29 -0800
commit31f1de46b90ad360a16e7af3e277d104961df923 (patch)
treea54e8698d4e4d088c4008e0ae91b579b13d2c208 /include/linux
parent1a510089849ff9f70b654659bf976a6baf3a4833 (diff)
mempolicy: silently restrict nodemask to allowed nodes
Kosaki Motohito noted that "numactl --interleave=all ..." failed in the presence of memoryless nodes. This patch attempts to fix that problem. Some background: numactl --interleave=all calls set_mempolicy(2) with a fully populated [out to MAXNUMNODES] nodemask. set_mempolicy() [in do_set_mempolicy()] calls contextualize_policy() which requires that the nodemask be a subset of the current task's mems_allowed; else EINVAL will be returned. A task's mems_allowed will always be a subset of node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] i.e., nodes with memory. So, a fully populated nodemask will be declared invalid if it includes memoryless nodes. NOTE: the same thing will occur when running in a cpuset with restricted mem_allowed--for the same reason: node mask contains dis-allowed nodes. mbind(2), on the other hand, just masks off any nodes in the nodemask that are not included in the caller's mems_allowed. In each case [mbind() and set_mempolicy()], mpol_check_policy() will complain [again, resulting in EINVAL] if the nodemask contains any memoryless nodes. This is somewhat redundant as mpol_new() will remove memoryless nodes for interleave policy, as will bind_zonelist()--called by mpol_new() for BIND policy. Proposed fix: 1) modify contextualize_policy logic to: a) remember whether the incoming node mask is empty. b) if not, restrict the nodemask to allowed nodes, as is currently done in-line for mbind(). This guarantees that the resulting mask includes only nodes with memory. NOTE: this is a [benign, IMO] change in behavior for set_mempolicy(). Dis-allowed nodes will be silently ignored, rather than returning an error. c) fold this code into mpol_check_policy(), replace 2 calls to contextualize_policy() to call mpol_check_policy() directly and remove contextualize_policy(). 2) In existing mpol_check_policy() logic, after "contextualization": a) MPOL_DEFAULT: require that in coming mask "was_empty" b) MPOL_{BIND|INTERLEAVE}: require that contextualized nodemask contains at least one node. c) add a case for MPOL_PREFERRED: if in coming was not empty and resulting mask IS empty, user specified invalid nodes. Return EINVAL. c) remove the now redundant check for memoryless nodes 3) remove the now redundant masking of policy nodes for interleave policy from mpol_new(). 4) Now that mpol_check_policy() contextualizes the nodemask, remove the in-line nodes_and() from sys_mbind(). I believe that this restores mbind() to the behavior before the memoryless-nodes patch series. E.g., we'll no longer treat an invalid nodemask with MPOL_PREFERRED as local allocation. [ Patch history: v1 -> v2: - Communicate whether or not incoming node mask was empty to mpol_check_policy() for better error checking. - As suggested by David Rientjes, remove the now unused cpuset_nodes_subset_current_mems_allowed() from cpuset.h v2 -> v3: - As suggested by Kosaki Motohito, fold the "contextualization" of policy nodemask into mpol_check_policy(). Looks a little cleaner. ] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cpuset.h3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cpuset.h b/include/linux/cpuset.h
index f8c9a2752f06..0a26be353cb3 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuset.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ extern nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p);
#define cpuset_current_mems_allowed (current->mems_allowed)
void cpuset_init_current_mems_allowed(void);
void cpuset_update_task_memory_state(void);
-#define cpuset_nodes_subset_current_mems_allowed(nodes) \
- nodes_subset((nodes), current->mems_allowed)
int cpuset_zonelist_valid_mems_allowed(struct zonelist *zl);
extern int __cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall(struct zone *z, gfp_t gfp_mask);
@@ -103,7 +101,6 @@ static inline nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed(struct task_struct *p)
#define cpuset_current_mems_allowed (node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY])
static inline void cpuset_init_current_mems_allowed(void) {}
static inline void cpuset_update_task_memory_state(void) {}
-#define cpuset_nodes_subset_current_mems_allowed(nodes) (1)
static inline int cpuset_zonelist_valid_mems_allowed(struct zonelist *zl)
{