Re: [PATCH v5] slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interrupt context

[Pekka Enberg]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:11 AM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, David Rientjes wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, David Mackey wrote:
>>
>> > diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
>> > index f15c1b2..cb0b230 100644
>> > --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
>> > +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
>> > @@ -1602,8 +1602,14 @@ static unsigned interleave_nodes(struct mempolicy *policy)
>> >   * task can change it's policy.  The system default policy requires no
>> >   * such protection.
>> >   */
>> > -unsigned slab_node(struct mempolicy *policy)
>> > +unsigned slab_node(void)
>> >  {
>> > +   struct mempolicy *policy;
>> > +
>> > +   if (in_interrupt())
>> > +           return numa_node_id();
>> > +
>> > +   policy = current->mempolicy;
>> >     if (!policy || policy->flags & MPOL_F_LOCAL)
>> >             return numa_node_id();
>> >
>>
>> Should probably be numa_mem_id() in both these cases for
>> CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES, but it won't cause a problem in this form
>> either.
>>
>> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>
> Still missing from linux-next, who's going to pick this up?

I'm going to pick it up. I've been postponing merging it until dust
has settled from Christoph's "common slab" patch series.
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