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mempolicy: fixup Fallback for Default Shmem Policy
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get_vma_policy() is not handling fallback to task policy correctly when the
get_policy() vm_op returns NULL.  The NULL overwrites the 'pol' variable that
was holding the fallback task mempolicy.  So, it was falling back directly to
system default policy.

Fix get_vma_policy() to use only non-NULL policy returned from the vma
get_policy op.

shm_get_policy() was falling back to current task's mempolicy if the "backing
file system" [tmpfs vs hugetlbfs] does not support the get_policy vm_op and
the vma policy is null.  This is incorrect for show_numa_maps() which is
likely querying the numa_maps of some task other than current.  Remove this
fallback.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lee Schermerhorn authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 28, 2008
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions ipc/shm.c
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Expand Up @@ -274,8 +274,7 @@ static struct mempolicy *shm_get_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
else if (vma->vm_policy) {
pol = vma->vm_policy;
mpol_get(pol); /* get_vma_policy() expects this */
} else
pol = current->mempolicy;
}
return pol;
}
#endif
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions mm/mempolicy.c
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Expand Up @@ -1262,15 +1262,18 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mbind(compat_ulong_t start, compat_ulong_t len,
* @task != current]. It is the caller's responsibility to
* free the reference in these cases.
*/
static struct mempolicy * get_vma_policy(struct task_struct *task,
static struct mempolicy *get_vma_policy(struct task_struct *task,
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
{
struct mempolicy *pol = task->mempolicy;
int shared_pol = 0;

if (vma) {
if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->get_policy) {
pol = vma->vm_ops->get_policy(vma, addr);
struct mempolicy *vpol = vma->vm_ops->get_policy(vma,
addr);
if (vpol)
pol = vpol;
shared_pol = 1; /* if pol non-NULL, add ref below */
} else if (vma->vm_policy &&
vma->vm_policy->policy != MPOL_DEFAULT)
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