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[PATCH] mbind: restrict nodes to the currently allowed cpuset 

Currently one can specify an arbitrary node mask to mbind that includes
nodes not allowed.  If that is done with an interleave policy then we will
go around all the nodes.  Those outside of the currently allowed cpuset
will be redirected to the border nodes.  Interleave will then create
imbalances at the borders of the cpuset.

This patch restricts the nodes to the currently allowed cpuset.

The RFC for this patch was discussed at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116793842100004&r=1&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter 2007-01-22 20:40:45 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 79603a3500
commit 30150f8d7b
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@ -884,6 +884,10 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mbind(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
err = get_nodes(&nodes, nmask, maxnode);
if (err)
return err;
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
/* Restrict the nodes to the allowed nodes in the cpuset */
nodes_and(nodes, nodes, current->mems_allowed);
#endif
return do_mbind(start, len, mode, &nodes, flags);
}