aha/kernel
Paul Jackson 74cb21553f [PATCH] cpuset: numa_policy_rebind cleanup
Cleanup, reorganize and make more robust the mempolicy.c code to rebind
mempolicies relative to the containing cpuset after a tasks memory placement
changes.

The real motivator for this cleanup patch is to lay more groundwork for the
upcoming patch to correctly rebind NUMA mempolicies that are attached to vma's
after the containing cpuset memory placement changes.

NUMA mempolicies are constrained by the cpuset their task is a member of.
When either (1) a task is moved to a different cpuset, or (2) the 'mems'
mems_allowed of a cpuset is changed, then the NUMA mempolicies have embedded
node numbers (for MPOL_BIND, MPOL_INTERLEAVE and MPOL_PREFERRED) that need to
be recalculated, relative to their new cpuset placement.

The old code used an unreliable method of determining what was the old
mems_allowed constraining the mempolicy.  It just looked at the tasks
mems_allowed value.  This sort of worked with the present code, that just
rebinds the -task- mempolicy, and leaves any -vma- mempolicies broken,
referring to the old nodes.  But in an upcoming patch, the vma mempolicies
will be rebound as well.  Then the order in which the various task and vma
mempolicies are updated will no longer be deterministic, and one can no longer
count on the task->mems_allowed holding the old value for as long as needed.
It's not even clear if the current code was guaranteed to work reliably for
task mempolicies.

So I added a mems_allowed field to each mempolicy, stating exactly what
mems_allowed the policy is relative to, and updated synchronously and reliably
anytime that the mempolicy is rebound.

Also removed a useless wrapper routine, numa_policy_rebind(), and had its
caller, cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), call directly to the rewritten
policy_rebind() routine, and made that rebind routine extern instead of
static, and added a "mpol_" prefix to its name, making it
mpol_rebind_policy().

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:44 -08:00
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irq [PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (generic part) 2006-01-06 08:33:40 -08:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: save image header first 2006-01-06 08:33:43 -08:00
.gitignore gitignore: ignore more generated files 2006-01-03 11:35:26 +01:00
acct.c [PATCH] s390: cputime_t fixes 2006-01-06 08:33:49 -08:00
audit.c [PATCH] Add try_to_freeze to kauditd 2005-12-12 08:57:43 -08:00
auditsc.c [PATCH] gfp_t: kernel/* 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00
capability.c [PATCH] kernel/capability.c: add kerneldoc 2005-07-27 16:26:06 -07:00
compat.c [PATCH] kernel: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage 2005-09-10 10:06:37 -07:00
configs.c update the email address of Randy Dunlap 2006-01-03 13:37:51 +01:00
cpu.c [PATCH] clean up lock_cpu_hotplug() in cpufreq 2005-11-28 14:42:23 -08:00
cpuset.c [PATCH] cpuset: numa_policy_rebind cleanup 2006-01-08 20:13:44 -08:00
crash_dump.c [PATCH] kernel/crash_dump.c: add kerneldoc 2005-07-27 16:26:06 -07:00
dma.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exec_domain.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
exit.c [PATCH] RCU signal handling 2006-01-08 20:13:40 -08:00
extable.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
fork.c [PATCH] cpuset: fork hook fix 2006-01-08 20:13:43 -08:00
futex.c [PATCH] FRV: Make futex code compilable on nommu [try #2] 2006-01-06 08:33:33 -08:00
intermodule.c [PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc 2005-09-07 16:57:45 -07:00
itimer.c [PATCH] itimer fixes 2005-07-27 16:25:51 -07:00
kallsyms.c [PATCH] fix missing includes 2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Kconfig.hz [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt 2005-06-23 09:45:10 -07:00
Kconfig.preempt [PATCH] sched: voluntary kernel preemption 2005-06-25 16:24:45 -07:00
kexec.c [PATCH] mm: split page table lock 2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
kfifo.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
kmod.c [PATCH] Keys: Get rid of warning in kmod.c if keys disabled 2005-10-30 17:37:23 -08:00
kprobes.c [PATCH] kprobes: increment kprobe missed count for multiprobes 2005-12-12 08:57:45 -08:00
ksysfs.c [PATCH] kobject_uevent CONFIG_NET=n fix 2006-01-04 16:18:08 -08:00
kthread.c [PATCH] Add kthread_stop_sem() 2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module 2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
module.c [PATCH] kernel/module.c: removed dead code 2006-01-06 08:33:59 -08:00
panic.c [PATCH] s390: cleanup Kconfig 2006-01-06 08:33:53 -08:00
params.c [PATCH] kernel/params.c: fix sysfs access with CONFIG_MODULES=n 2005-12-20 10:31:33 -08:00
pid.c [PATCH] RCU signal handling 2006-01-08 20:13:40 -08:00
posix-cpu-timers.c [PATCH] Fix posix-cpu-timers sched_time accumulation 2006-01-06 20:23:04 -08:00
posix-timers.c [PATCH] timespec: normalize off by one errors 2005-11-13 18:14:17 -08:00
printk.c [PATCH] Fix crash in unregister_console() 2005-11-23 16:08:39 -08:00
profile.c [PATCH] mostly_read data section 2005-07-07 18:23:46 -07:00
ptrace.c [PATCH] Fix crash when ptrace poking hugepage areas 2005-11-29 19:47:03 -08:00
rcupdate.c [PATCH] RCU signal handling 2006-01-08 20:13:40 -08:00
rcutorture.c [PATCH] Fix bug in RCU torture test 2005-12-12 08:57:42 -08:00
resource.c [PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc 2005-09-07 16:57:45 -07:00
sched.c [PATCH] RCU signal handling 2006-01-08 20:13:40 -08:00
seccomp.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
signal.c [PATCH] Simpler signal-exit concurrency handling 2006-01-08 20:13:40 -08:00
softirq.c [PATCH] cpu hoptlug: avoid usage of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code 2005-11-07 07:53:29 -08:00
softlockup.c [PATCH] quieten softlockup at boot 2005-11-09 07:55:50 -08:00
spinlock.c [PATCH] spinlock consolidation 2005-09-10 10:06:21 -07:00
stop_machine.c [PATCH] stop_machine() vs. synchronous IPI send deadlock 2005-11-13 18:14:16 -08:00
sys.c [PATCH] kprobes: no probes on critical path 2005-12-12 08:57:45 -08:00
sys_ni.c [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: sys_migrate_pages interface 2006-01-08 20:12:42 -08:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurable 2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
time.c [PATCH] Add getnstimestamp function 2005-12-12 08:57:42 -08:00
timer.c [PATCH] jiffies_64 cleanup 2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
uid16.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
user.c [PATCH] inotify 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
wait.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
workqueue.c [PATCH] add schedule_on_each_cpu() 2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00