Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags

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To: David Rientjes <rientjes@...>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Paul Jackson <pj@...>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>, Andi Kleen <ak@...>, Mel Gorman <mel@...>, <linux-kernel@...>
Date: Monday, February 11, 2008 - 12:36 pm

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 07:30 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:

Hi, David:

These patches look good--well, interesting, anyway.  I'm "off on
assignment" this week, so I won't get to review in detail, merge and
test them until next...   

This helper functions introduced by this patch are similar in nature
[but go further] to one I introduced in the reference counting cleanup
RFC [http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=119697614520515&w=4] I posted a
while back.  I've been holding these cleanup patches until Andrew starts
accepting this sort of thing again.  I have my series based atop Mel
Gorman's [added to cc] "two zonelist" series, as it depends on removing
the custom zonelist from the mempolicy.

[I'm hoping, as mempolicies evolve, we can refrain from hanging any
allocated structs off them as that does complicate reference counting --
especially in swap read-ahead where we can attempt to allocate several
pages using a single policy lookup.  See the patch linked above]

We need to sort out with Andrew, Mel, Paul, ... the order in which these
interdependent changes go in.  Given such an order, I'm willing to merge
them all up, test them, and post them [after running checkpatch, of
course].

One other thing:  In the recent mempolicy patch to "silently restrict
nodemask], I mentioned the issue with regards to whether and when to
"contextualize" tmpfs/hugetlbfs policies--if/when we fold
mpol_check_policy() into mpol_new(), as you suggested.  Once we can
agree on the desired semantics, I had been thinking that an additional
mode flag could be added to policies obtained from the superblock, and
passed via mpol_shared_policy_init() [which calls mpol_new()] could be
used for this purpose.  Your change here seems to lay the foundation for
implementing that.

Lee

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>

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[patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 11:30 am)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, Lee Schermerhorn, (Tue Feb 12, 8:10 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, Christoph Lameter, (Tue Feb 12, 9:04 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, David Rientjes, (Tue Feb 12, 10:00 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, Paul Jackson, (Tue Feb 12, 10:22 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, David Rientjes, (Tue Feb 12, 10:42 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, Paul Jackson, (Tue Feb 12, 10:59 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, David Rientjes, (Tue Feb 12, 11:17 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, Paul Jackson, (Tue Feb 12, 11:22 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, David Rientjes, (Tue Feb 12, 8:53 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, Christoph Lameter, (Mon Feb 11, 3:32 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 3:40 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, Christoph Lameter, (Mon Feb 11, 3:48 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 4:02 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, Christoph Lameter, (Mon Feb 11, 4:45 pm)
[patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 11:30 am)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, Lee Schermerhorn, (Tue Feb 12, 8:14 pm)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, David Rientjes, (Tue Feb 12, 8:25 pm)
[patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 11:30 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Thu Feb 14, 6:09 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Thu Feb 14, 5:38 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Fri Feb 15, 5:27 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Fri Feb 15, 4:23 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Fri Feb 15, 7:45 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Fri Feb 15, 7:55 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Fri Feb 15, 8:11 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Fri Feb 15, 4:32 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Thu Feb 14, 3:40 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Thu Feb 14, 9:44 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Fri Feb 15, 6:00 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Lee Schermerhorn, (Tue Feb 12, 8:22 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 12:18 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Lee Schermerhorn, (Wed Feb 13, 12:14 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 3:12 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 1:06 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Lee Schermerhorn, (Wed Feb 13, 11:15 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Tue Feb 12, 11:52 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 12:03 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Wed Feb 13, 12:13 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 12:23 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Wed Feb 13, 4:03 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 5:36 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Wed Feb 13, 1:04 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 3:02 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Wed Feb 13, 4:29 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Thu Feb 14, 6:26 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Thu Feb 14, 3:45 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Fri Feb 15, 6:19 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Fri Feb 15, 4:14 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 5:35 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Thu Feb 14, 8:27 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Thu Feb 14, 7:12 am)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Lee Schermerhorn, (Wed Feb 13, 12:01 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 2:48 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Lee Schermerhorn, (Wed Feb 13, 3:05 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Wed Feb 13, 3:17 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Paul Jackson, (Wed Feb 13, 2:58 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Christoph Lameter, (Mon Feb 11, 3:34 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, KOSAKI Motohiro, (Mon Feb 11, 2:25 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 3:56 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, Lee Schermerhorn, (Tue Feb 12, 8:25 pm)
Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag, David Rientjes, (Tue Feb 12, 8:57 pm)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, Lee Schermerhorn, (Mon Feb 11, 12:36 pm)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 3:34 pm)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, Lee Schermerhorn, (Tue Feb 12, 11:31 am)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, David Rientjes, (Tue Feb 12, 3:14 pm)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, Paul Jackson, (Mon Feb 11, 4:55 pm)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 5:52 pm)
Re: [patch 2/4] mempolicy: support optional mode flags, Paul Jackson, (Mon Feb 11, 5:57 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum, David Rientjes, (Mon Feb 11, 3:25 pm)