Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] mm: Provide speculative fault infrastructure

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Sun Aug 20 2017 - 08:15:33 EST


On (08/18/17 00:05), Laurent Dufour wrote:
[..]
> + /*
> + * MPOL_INTERLEAVE implies additional check in mpol_misplaced() which
> + * are not compatible with the speculative page fault processing.
> + */
> + pol = __get_vma_policy(vma, address);
> + if (!pol)
> + pol = get_task_policy(current);
> + if (pol && pol->mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE)
> + goto unlock;

include/linux/mempolicy.h defines

struct mempolicy *get_task_policy(struct task_struct *p);
struct mempolicy *__get_vma_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr);

only for CONFIG_NUMA configs.

-ss