On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> >> Well, interleave_nodes() will then potentially return a node outside of
> >> the allowed memory policy when its called for the first time after
> >> mpol_rebind_.. . But thenn it will find the next node within the
> >> nodemask and work correctly for the next invocations.
> >
> > Hmm, you're right. But that could be easily fixed if il_next became 
> > il_prev, so
> > we would return the result of next_node_in(il_prev) and also store it as 
> > the new
> > il_prev, right? I somehow assumed it already worked that way.

Yup that makes sense and I thought about that when I saw the problem too.

> @@ -863,6 +856,18 @@ static int lookup_node(unsigned long addr)
>       return err;
>  }
>
> +/* Do dynamic interleaving for a process */
> +static unsigned interleave_nodes(struct mempolicy *policy, bool update_prev)

Why do you need an additional flag? Would it not be better to always
update and switch the update_prev=false case to simply use
next_node_in()?

> +{
> +     unsigned next;
> +     struct task_struct *me = current;
> +
> +     next = next_node_in(me->il_prev, policy->v.nodes);
> +     if (next < MAX_NUMNODES && update_prev)
> +             me->il_prev = next;
> +     return next;
> +}
> +
>  /* Retrieve NUMA policy */
>  static long do_get_mempolicy(int *policy, nodemask_t *nmask,
>                            unsigned long addr, unsigned long flags)
> @@ -916,7 +921,7 @@ static long do_get_mempolicy(int *policy, nodemask_t 
> *nmask,
>                       *policy = err;
>               } else if (pol == current->mempolicy &&
>                               pol->mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE) {
> -                     *policy = current->il_next;
> +                     *policy = interleave_nodes(current->mempolicy, false);

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