[PATCH v3 09/14] mm/mempolicy: Thread allocation for many preferred

From: Feng Tang
Date: Wed Mar 03 2021 - 10:59:52 EST


From: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>

In order to support MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY as the mode used by
set_mempolicy(2), alloc_pages_current() needs to support it. This patch
does that by using the new helper function to allocate properly based on
policy.

All the actual machinery to make this work was part of
("mm/mempolicy: Create a page allocator for policy")

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630212517.308045-10-ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 11 +++--------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index a737e02..ceee90e 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2343,7 +2343,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_vma);
struct page *alloc_pages_current(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order)
{
struct mempolicy *pol = &default_policy;
- struct page *page;
+ int nid = NUMA_NO_NODE;

if (!in_interrupt() && !(gfp & __GFP_THISNODE))
pol = get_task_policy(current);
@@ -2353,14 +2353,9 @@ struct page *alloc_pages_current(gfp_t gfp, unsigned order)
* nor system default_policy
*/
if (pol->mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE)
- page = alloc_pages_policy(pol, gfp, order,
- interleave_nodes(pol));
- else
- page = __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp, order,
- policy_node(gfp, pol, numa_node_id()),
- policy_nodemask(gfp, pol));
+ nid = interleave_nodes(pol);

- return page;
+ return alloc_pages_policy(pol, gfp, order, nid);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_pages_current);

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