Re: [BUG] set_mempolicy(MPOL_INTERLEAV) cause kernel panic

From: David Rientjes
Date: Fri Jul 17 2009 - 05:02:10 EST


On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> This patch seems band-aid patch. it will change memory-hotplug behavior.
> Please imazine following scenario:
>
> 1. numactl interleave=all process-A
> 2. memory hot-add
>
> before 2.6.30:
> -> process-A can use hot-added memory
>

That apparently depends on the architecture since Lee said top_cpuset
reflects node_possible_map on ia64 and node_online_map on x86_64.
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