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mm: mempolicy: Add MPOL_NOOP
authorLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:16:29 +0000 (14:16 +0200)
committerMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:42:40 +0000 (14:42 +0000)
commit248f65f8684902d45f8feb41165ff325a416086f
tree19a03d787d1795c8212fc2c9ede5397ba0a32c85
parentd01c6bab234a53c8fe64fdbc1007003bb525ccfd
mm: mempolicy: Add MPOL_NOOP

This patch augments the MPOL_MF_LAZY feature by adding a "NOOP" policy
to mbind().  When the NOOP policy is used with the 'MOVE and 'LAZY
flags, mbind() will map the pages PROT_NONE so that they will be
migrated on the next touch.

This allows an application to prepare for a new phase of operation
where different regions of shared storage will be assigned to
worker threads, w/o changing policy.  Note that we could just use
"default" policy in this case.  However, this also allows an
application to request that pages be migrated, only if necessary,
to follow any arbitrary policy that might currently apply to a
range of pages, without knowing the policy, or without specifying
multiple mbind()s for ranges with different policies.

[ Bug in early version of mpol_parse_str() reported by Fengguang Wu. ]

Bug-Reported-by: Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
mm/mempolicy.c