Re: [PATCH] slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interruptcontext v3

[Pekka Enberg]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:45 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
>> index cfb6c86..b65eb06 100644
>> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
>> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
>> @@ -1586,9 +1586,11 @@ 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)
>>  {
>> -     if (!policy || policy->flags & MPOL_F_LOCAL)
>> +     struct mempolicy *policy = current->mempolicy;
>> +
>> +     if (in_interrupt() || !policy || policy->flags & MPOL_F_LOCAL)
>>               return numa_node_id();
>>
>>       switch (policy->mode) {
>
> I think the version proposed by David Mackey is more clear, it makes it
> obvious that we don't want to dereference current in interrupt context
> whereas that relies on short-circuiting your conditional in your approach.

I like it better also. Christoph, Andi?
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