[LinuxPPS] 21 Oct 20:35 - [PATCH] cpuset: mempolicy migration typo fix

linuxpps, Paul Jackson <> webmaster at enneenne.com
Tue Oct 24 11:11:08 CEST 2006


[PATCH] cpuset: mempolicy migration typo fix  
  
Mistyped an ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS - fixed.  
  
I doubt that anyone ever noticed. The impact of this typo was  
that if someone:  
1) was using MPOL_BIND to force off node allocations  
2) while using cpusets to constrain memory placement  
3) when that cpuset was migrating that jobs memory  
4) while the tasks in that job were actively forking  
then there was a rare chance that future allocations using  
that MPOL_BIND policy would be node local, not off node.  
  
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson   
  
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton   
  
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds   
  
  
include/linux/mempolicy.h

URL: http://gitweb.enneenne.com/?p=linuxpps;a=commit;h=faf6bbcf94caee10ba34adb86db4ecca96bfd3bf



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