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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>numa: fix slab_node(MPOL_BIND)</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T21:26:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>eric.dumazet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-27T17:33:43+00:00</published>
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commit 800416f799e0723635ac2d720ad4449917a1481c upstream.

When a node contains only HighMem memory, slab_node(MPOL_BIND)
dereferences a NULL pointer.

[ This code seems to go back all the way to commit 19770b32609b: "mm:
  filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask".  Which was back in
  April 2008, and it got merged into 2.6.26.  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 800416f799e0723635ac2d720ad4449917a1481c upstream.

When a node contains only HighMem memory, slab_node(MPOL_BIND)
dereferences a NULL pointer.

[ This code seems to go back all the way to commit 19770b32609b: "mm:
  filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask".  Which was back in
  April 2008, and it got merged into 2.6.26.  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tmpfs: cleanup mpol_parse_str()</title>
<updated>2010-04-01T22:58:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-23T20:35:32+00:00</published>
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commit 926f2ae04f183098cf9a30521776fb2759c8afeb upstream.

mpol_parse_str() made lots 'err' variable related bug.  Because it is ugly
and reviewing unfriendly.

This patch simplifies it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran@scalex86.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 926f2ae04f183098cf9a30521776fb2759c8afeb upstream.

mpol_parse_str() made lots 'err' variable related bug.  Because it is ugly
and reviewing unfriendly.

This patch simplifies it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran@scalex86.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tmpfs: handle MPOL_LOCAL mount option properly</title>
<updated>2010-04-01T22:58:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-23T20:35:31+00:00</published>
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commit 12821f5fb942e795f8009ece14bde868893bd811 upstream.

commit 71fe804b6d5 (mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in
shmem_sb_info) added mpol=local mount option.  but its feature is broken
since it was born.  because such code always return 1 (i.e.  mount
failure).

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran@scalex86.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 12821f5fb942e795f8009ece14bde868893bd811 upstream.

commit 71fe804b6d5 (mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in
shmem_sb_info) added mpol=local mount option.  but its feature is broken
since it was born.  because such code always return 1 (i.e.  mount
failure).

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran@scalex86.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tmpfs: mpol=bind:0 don't cause mount error.</title>
<updated>2010-04-01T22:58:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-23T20:35:30+00:00</published>
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commit d69b2e63e9172afb4d07c305601b79a55509ac4c upstream.

Currently, following mount operation cause mount error.

% mount -t tmpfs -ompol=bind:0 none /tmp

Because commit 71fe804b6d5 (mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in
shmem_sb_info) corrupted MPOL_BIND parse code.

This patch restore the needed one.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran@scalex86.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit d69b2e63e9172afb4d07c305601b79a55509ac4c upstream.

Currently, following mount operation cause mount error.

% mount -t tmpfs -ompol=bind:0 none /tmp

Because commit 71fe804b6d5 (mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in
shmem_sb_info) corrupted MPOL_BIND parse code.

This patch restore the needed one.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran@scalex86.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=default</title>
<updated>2010-04-01T22:58:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ravikiran G Thirumalai</name>
<email>kiran@scalex86.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-23T20:35:28+00:00</published>
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commit 413b43deab8377819aba1dbad2abf0c15d59b491 upstream.

Fix an 'oops' when a tmpfs mount point is mounted with the mpol=default
mempolicy.

Upon remounting a tmpfs mount point with 'mpol=default' option, the mount
code crashed with a null pointer dereference.  The initial problem report
was on 2.6.27, but the problem exists in mainline 2.6.34-rc as well.  On
examining the code, we see that mpol_new returns NULL if default mempolicy
was requested.  This 'NULL' mempolicy is accessed to store the node mask
resulting in oops.

The following patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran@scalex86.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 413b43deab8377819aba1dbad2abf0c15d59b491 upstream.

Fix an 'oops' when a tmpfs mount point is mounted with the mpol=default
mempolicy.

Upon remounting a tmpfs mount point with 'mpol=default' option, the mount
code crashed with a null pointer dereference.  The initial problem report
was on 2.6.27, but the problem exists in mainline 2.6.34-rc as well.  On
examining the code, we see that mpol_new returns NULL if default mempolicy
was requested.  This 'NULL' mempolicy is accessed to store the node mask
resulting in oops.

The following patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran@scalex86.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>do_mbind(): fix memory leak</title>
<updated>2009-10-29T14:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-26T23:49:59+00:00</published>
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If migrate_prep is failed, new variable is leaked.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If migrate_prep is failed, new variable is leaked.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mbind(): fix leak of never putback pages</title>
<updated>2009-10-29T14:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-26T23:49:58+00:00</published>
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If mbind() receives an invalid address, do_mbind leaks a page.  The
following test program detects this leak.

This patch fixes it.

migrate_efault.c
=======================================
 #include &lt;numaif.h&gt;
 #include &lt;numa.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
 #include &lt;string.h&gt;

static unsigned long pagesize;

static void* make_hole_mapping(void)
{

	void* addr;

	addr = mmap(NULL, pagesize*3, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
		    MAP_ANON|MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0);
	if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
		return NULL;

	/* make page populate */
	memset(addr, 0, pagesize*3);

	/* make memory hole */
	munmap(addr+pagesize, pagesize);

	return addr;
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
	void* addr;
	int ch;
	int node;
	struct bitmask *nmask = numa_allocate_nodemask();
	int err;
	int node_set = 0;

	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "n:")) != -1){
		switch (ch){
		case 'n':
			node = strtol(optarg, NULL, 0);
			numa_bitmask_setbit(nmask, node);
			node_set = 1;
			break;
		default:
			;
		}
	}
	argc -= optind;
	argv += optind;

	if (!node_set)
		numa_bitmask_setbit(nmask, 0);

	pagesize = getpagesize();

	addr = make_hole_mapping();

	err = mbind(addr, pagesize*3, MPOL_BIND, nmask-&gt;maskp, nmask-&gt;size, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
	if (err)
		perror("mbind ");

	return 0;
}
=======================================

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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If mbind() receives an invalid address, do_mbind leaks a page.  The
following test program detects this leak.

This patch fixes it.

migrate_efault.c
=======================================
 #include &lt;numaif.h&gt;
 #include &lt;numa.h&gt;
 #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
 #include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
 #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
 #include &lt;string.h&gt;

static unsigned long pagesize;

static void* make_hole_mapping(void)
{

	void* addr;

	addr = mmap(NULL, pagesize*3, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
		    MAP_ANON|MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0);
	if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
		return NULL;

	/* make page populate */
	memset(addr, 0, pagesize*3);

	/* make memory hole */
	munmap(addr+pagesize, pagesize);

	return addr;
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
	void* addr;
	int ch;
	int node;
	struct bitmask *nmask = numa_allocate_nodemask();
	int err;
	int node_set = 0;

	while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "n:")) != -1){
		switch (ch){
		case 'n':
			node = strtol(optarg, NULL, 0);
			numa_bitmask_setbit(nmask, node);
			node_set = 1;
			break;
		default:
			;
		}
	}
	argc -= optind;
	argv += optind;

	if (!node_set)
		numa_bitmask_setbit(nmask, 0);

	pagesize = getpagesize();

	addr = make_hole_mapping();

	err = mbind(addr, pagesize*3, MPOL_BIND, nmask-&gt;maskp, nmask-&gt;size, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
	if (err)
		perror("mbind ");

	return 0;
}
=======================================

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: make set_mempolicy(MPOL_INTERLEAV) N_HIGH_MEMORY aware</title>
<updated>2009-08-07T17:39:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki</name>
<email>kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-06T22:07:33+00:00</published>
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At first, init_task's mems_allowed is initialized as this.
 init_task-&gt;mems_allowed == node_state[N_POSSIBLE]

And cpuset's top_cpuset mask is initialized as this
 top_cpuset-&gt;mems_allowed = node_state[N_HIGH_MEMORY]

Before 2.6.29:
policy's mems_allowed is initialized as this.

  1. update tasks-&gt;mems_allowed by its cpuset-&gt;mems_allowed.
  2. policy-&gt;mems_allowed = nodes_and(tasks-&gt;mems_allowed, user's mask)

Updating task's mems_allowed in reference to top_cpuset's one.
cpuset's mems_allowed is aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY, always.

In 2.6.30: After commit 58568d2a8215cb6f55caf2332017d7bdff954e1c
("cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time"), policy's mems_allowed
is initialized as this.

  1. policy-&gt;mems_allowd = nodes_and(task-&gt;mems_allowed, user's mask)

Here, if task is in top_cpuset, task-&gt;mems_allowed is not updated from
init's one.  Assume user excutes command as #numactrl --interleave=all
,....

  policy-&gt;mems_allowd = nodes_and(N_POSSIBLE, ALL_SET_MASK)

Then, policy's mems_allowd can includes a possible node, which has no pgdat.

MPOL's INTERLEAVE just scans nodemask of task-&gt;mems_allowd and access this
directly.

  NODE_DATA(nid)-&gt;zonelist even if NODE_DATA(nid)==NULL

Then, what's we need is making policy-&gt;mems_allowed be aware of
N_HIGH_MEMORY.  This patch does that.  But to do so, extra nodemask will
be on statck.  Because I know cpumask has a new interface of
CPUMASK_ALLOC(), I added it to node.

This patch stands on old behavior.  But I feel this fix itself is just a
Band-Aid.  But to do fundametal fix, we have to take care of memory
hotplug and it takes time.  (task-&gt;mems_allowd should be N_HIGH_MEMORY, I
think.)

mpol_set_nodemask() should be aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY and policy's nodemask
should be includes only online nodes.

In old behavior, this is guaranteed by frequent reference to cpuset's
code.  Now, most of them are removed and mempolicy has to check it by
itself.

To do check, a few nodemask_t will be used for calculating nodemask.  But,
size of nodemask_t can be big and it's not good to allocate them on stack.

Now, cpumask_t has CPUMASK_ALLOC/FREE an easy code for get scratch area.
NODEMASK_ALLOC/FREE shoudl be there.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups &amp; tweaks]
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;menage@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Yasunori Goto &lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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At first, init_task's mems_allowed is initialized as this.
 init_task-&gt;mems_allowed == node_state[N_POSSIBLE]

And cpuset's top_cpuset mask is initialized as this
 top_cpuset-&gt;mems_allowed = node_state[N_HIGH_MEMORY]

Before 2.6.29:
policy's mems_allowed is initialized as this.

  1. update tasks-&gt;mems_allowed by its cpuset-&gt;mems_allowed.
  2. policy-&gt;mems_allowed = nodes_and(tasks-&gt;mems_allowed, user's mask)

Updating task's mems_allowed in reference to top_cpuset's one.
cpuset's mems_allowed is aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY, always.

In 2.6.30: After commit 58568d2a8215cb6f55caf2332017d7bdff954e1c
("cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time"), policy's mems_allowed
is initialized as this.

  1. policy-&gt;mems_allowd = nodes_and(task-&gt;mems_allowed, user's mask)

Here, if task is in top_cpuset, task-&gt;mems_allowed is not updated from
init's one.  Assume user excutes command as #numactrl --interleave=all
,....

  policy-&gt;mems_allowd = nodes_and(N_POSSIBLE, ALL_SET_MASK)

Then, policy's mems_allowd can includes a possible node, which has no pgdat.

MPOL's INTERLEAVE just scans nodemask of task-&gt;mems_allowd and access this
directly.

  NODE_DATA(nid)-&gt;zonelist even if NODE_DATA(nid)==NULL

Then, what's we need is making policy-&gt;mems_allowed be aware of
N_HIGH_MEMORY.  This patch does that.  But to do so, extra nodemask will
be on statck.  Because I know cpumask has a new interface of
CPUMASK_ALLOC(), I added it to node.

This patch stands on old behavior.  But I feel this fix itself is just a
Band-Aid.  But to do fundametal fix, we have to take care of memory
hotplug and it takes time.  (task-&gt;mems_allowd should be N_HIGH_MEMORY, I
think.)

mpol_set_nodemask() should be aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY and policy's nodemask
should be includes only online nodes.

In old behavior, this is guaranteed by frequent reference to cpuset's
code.  Now, most of them are removed and mempolicy has to check it by
itself.

To do check, a few nodemask_t will be used for calculating nodemask.  But,
size of nodemask_t can be big and it's not good to allocate them on stack.

Now, cpumask_t has CPUMASK_ALLOC/FREE an easy code for get scratch area.
NODEMASK_ALLOC/FREE shoudl be there.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups &amp; tweaks]
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;menage@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Yasunori Goto &lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid</title>
<updated>2009-06-17T02:47:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
<email>mel@csn.ul.ie</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-16T22:31:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6484eb3e2a81807722c5f28efef94d8338b7b996'/>
<id>6484eb3e2a81807722c5f28efef94d8338b7b996</id>
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Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean
"allocate from the current node".  However, a number of the callers in
fast paths know for a fact their node is valid.  To avoid a comparison and
branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid
with VM_BUG_ON().  Callers that know their node is valid are then
converted.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;	[for the SLOB NUMA bits]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Callers of alloc_pages_node() can optionally specify -1 as a node to mean
"allocate from the current node".  However, a number of the callers in
fast paths know for a fact their node is valid.  To avoid a comparison and
branch, this patch adds alloc_pages_exact_node() that only checks the nid
with VM_BUG_ON().  Callers that know their node is valid are then
converted.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;	[for the SLOB NUMA bits]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time</title>
<updated>2009-06-17T02:47:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miao Xie</name>
<email>miaox@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-16T22:31:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=58568d2a8215cb6f55caf2332017d7bdff954e1c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory
spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is
changed.

In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of
memory policy.  Because the memory policy is applied in the process's
context originally.  After applying this patch, one task directly
manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the
task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task.

But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a
lock may lead to performance regression.  But if we don't add a lock,the
task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some
non-overlapping set.  In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes,
then clear newly disallowed ones.

[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:
  The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to
  apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind()
  with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local
  allocation.  Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty
  node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy().

  Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new().

  Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL
  'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new().
  Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for
  'empty'.  However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to
  verify this assumption.]
[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:

  I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive
  enough to differentiate it from mpol_new().

  This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes
  to those allowed by the cpuset.  However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag
  is set, it also translates the nodes.  So I settled on
  'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions
  that we need to call this function to "set nodes".

  Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;menage@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Yasunori Goto &lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory
spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is
changed.

In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of
memory policy.  Because the memory policy is applied in the process's
context originally.  After applying this patch, one task directly
manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the
task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task.

But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a
lock may lead to performance regression.  But if we don't add a lock,the
task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some
non-overlapping set.  In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes,
then clear newly disallowed ones.

[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:
  The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to
  apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind()
  with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local
  allocation.  Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty
  node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy().

  Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new().

  Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL
  'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new().
  Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for
  'empty'.  However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to
  verify this assumption.]
[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:

  I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive
  enough to differentiate it from mpol_new().

  This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes
  to those allowed by the cpuset.  However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag
  is set, it also translates the nodes.  So I settled on
  'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions
  that we need to call this function to "set nodes".

  Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie &lt;miaox@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Menage &lt;menage@google.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au&gt;
Cc: Yasunori Goto &lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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