[PATCH 3/3] Apply MPOL_BIND policy to two highest zones when highest is ZONE_MOVABLE

[Mel Gorman]

The NUMA layer only supports the MPOL_BIND NUMA policy for the highest
zone. When ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest
zone becomes ZONE_MOVABLE. The result is that the bind policy policies is
only applied to allocations like anonymous pages and page cache allocated
from ZONE_MOVABLE when the zone is used.

This patch applies policies to the two highest zones when the highest zone
is ZONE_MOVABLE. As ZONE_MOVABLE consists of pages from the highest "real"
zone, these two zones are equivalent in policy terms.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---

 include/linux/mempolicy.h |    2 +-
 mm/mempolicy.c            |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-010_use_zonelist/include/linux/mempolicy.h linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-015_treat_movable_highest/include/linux/mempolicy.h
--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-010_use_zonelist/include/linux/mempolicy.h	2007-08-08 11:35:09.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-015_treat_movable_highest/include/linux/mempolicy.h	2007-08-08 14:36:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ extern enum zone_type policy_zone;
 
 static inline void check_highest_zone(enum zone_type k)
 {
-	if (k > policy_zone)
+	if (k > policy_zone && k != ZONE_MOVABLE)
 		policy_zone = k;
 }
 
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-010_use_zonelist/mm/mempolicy.c linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-015_treat_movable_highest/mm/mempolicy.c
--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-010_use_zonelist/mm/mempolicy.c	2007-08-08 11:35:09.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2-015_treat_movable_highest/mm/mempolicy.c	2007-08-08 14:36:52.000000000 +0100
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static struct zonelist *bind_zonelist(no
 	   lower zones etc. Avoid empty zones because the memory allocator
 	   doesn't like them. If you implement node hot removal you
 	   have to fix that. */
-	k = policy_zone;
+	k = MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;
 	while (1) {
 		for_each_node_mask(nd, *nodes) { 
 			struct zone *z = &NODE_DATA(nd)->node_zones[k];
-
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