linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy.c: forbid static or relative flags for local NUMA mode

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Date:   Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:05:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:     Piotr Kwapulinski <kwapulinski.piotr@...il.com>
cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        vbabka@...e.cz, mhocko@...nel.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        liangchen.linux@...il.com, nzimmer@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy.c: forbid static or relative flags for
 local NUMA mode

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Piotr Kwapulinski wrote:

> > There wasn't an MPOL_LOCAL when I introduced either of these flags, it's 
> > an oversight to allow them to be passed.
> > 
> > Want to try to update set_mempolicy(2) with the procedure outlined in 
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/patches.html as well?
> Yes, why not ? I'll put a note about it.
> 

Thanks!  While you're hacking on this area and everything is familiar to 
you, I'm sure the man page would benefit from as extensive update as 
you're willing to do.