Make MPOL_LOCAL a real and exposed policy such that applications that relied on the previous default behaviour can explicitly request it. Requested-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- include/linux/mempolicy.h | 1 + mm/mempolicy.c | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h index 4aa4273..fb515b4 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h +++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ enum { MPOL_PREFERRED, MPOL_BIND, MPOL_INTERLEAVE, + MPOL_LOCAL, MPOL_MAX, /* always last member of enum */ }; diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 30bea02..e7e3b58 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -269,6 +269,10 @@ static struct mempolicy *mpol_new(unsigned short mode, unsigned short flags, (flags & MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES))) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } + } else if (mode == MPOL_LOCAL) { + if (!nodes_empty(*nodes)) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + mode = MPOL_PREFERRED; } else if (nodes_empty(*nodes)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); policy = kmem_cache_alloc(policy_cache, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -2273,7 +2277,6 @@ void numa_default_policy(void) * "local" is pseudo-policy: MPOL_PREFERRED with MPOL_F_LOCAL flag * Used only for mpol_parse_str() and mpol_to_str() */ -#define MPOL_LOCAL MPOL_MAX static const char * const policy_modes[] = { [MPOL_DEFAULT] = "default", @@ -2326,12 +2329,12 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol, int no_context) if (flags) *flags++ = '\0'; /* terminate mode string */ - for (mode = 0; mode <= MPOL_LOCAL; mode++) { + for (mode = 0; mode < MPOL_MAX; mode++) { if (!strcmp(str, policy_modes[mode])) { break; } } - if (mode > MPOL_LOCAL) + if (mode >= MPOL_MAX) goto out; switch (mode) { -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/