On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Adam Litke wrote: > Here's another breakage as a result of shared memory stacked files :( > > The NUMA policy for a VMA is determined by checking the following (in the > order > given): > > 1) vma->vm_ops->get_policy() (if defined) > 2) vma->vm_policy (if defined) > 3) task->mempolicy (if defined) > 4) Fall back to default_policy > > By switching to stacked files for shared memory, get_policy() is now always > set > to shm_get_policy which is a wrapper function. This causes us to stop at step > 1, which yields NULL for hugetlb instead of task->mempolicy which was the > previous (and correct) result. > > This patch modifies the shm_get_policy() wrapper to maintain steps 1-3 for the > wrapped vm_ops. Andi and Christoph, does this look right to you?
thanks for the patch -- seems to do the trick for me. it seems like it would be a candidate for stable series as well. -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/