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authorLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>2008-04-28 02:13:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 08:58:24 -0700
commitae4d8c16aa22775f5731677abb8a82f03cec877e (patch)
tree2d34c6fd334b51cc5f3265cd4ec26db758639b5c /mm/mempolicy.c
parentf4e53d910b7dde2685b177f1e7c3e3e0b4a42f7b (diff)
downloadlinux-ae4d8c16aa22775f5731677abb8a82f03cec877e.tar.gz
mempolicy: fixup Fallback for Default Shmem Policy
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index c6c61ea6bb8c..8924aaf4665c 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ 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;
@@ -1270,7 +1270,10 @@ static struct mempolicy * get_vma_policy(struct task_struct *task,
 
 	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)