Re: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy.c: forbid static or relative flags for local NUMA mode

From: David Rientjes
Date: Tue Sep 20 2016 - 16:05:53 EST


On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Piotr Kwapulinski wrote:

> > There wasn't an MPOL_LOCAL when I introduced either of these flags, it's
> > an oversight to allow them to be passed.
> >
> > Want to try to update set_mempolicy(2) with the procedure outlined in
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/patches.html as well?
> Yes, why not ? I'll put a note about it.
>

Thanks! While you're hacking on this area and everything is familiar to
you, I'm sure the man page would benefit from as extensive update as
you're willing to do.