linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] mm/memfd: Introduce userspace inaccessible memfd

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Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2022 21:47:11 +0800
From:   Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] mm/memfd: Introduce userspace inaccessible memfd

> 
> In the context of userspace inaccessible memfd, what would be a
> suggested way to enforce NUMA memory policy for physical memory
> allocation? mbind[1] won't work here in absence of virtual address
> range.

How about set_mempolicy():
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/set_mempolicy.2.html

Chao
> 
> [1] https://github.com/chao-p/qemu/blob/privmem-v8/backends/hostmem.c#L382