Re: [PATCH v2] cgroup/cpuset: rebind mm mempolicy to effective_mems, not mems_allowed

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 07:39:33 EST


On 6/15/26 13:19, Gregory Price wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 01:08:16PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> With newmems it's clear that it is guaranteed to not be empty.
>
> I hadn't noticed he switched the patch from newmems -> effective_mems.
>
> This needs to be changed back to newmems, otherwise we're depending on
> a derivative value set somewhere else in the code being correct instead
> of using what we *know* is correct *at the moment we need to use it*.
>
> So yes, go back to using newmems.

Right, that's what v1 did looking at this now. Waiman requested the change, but
I don't think we want that.

So for v1:

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David