mempolicy: fixup Fallback for Default Shmem Policy
authorLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:13:11 +0000 (02:13 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:58:24 +0000 (08:58 -0700)
commitae4d8c16aa22775f5731677abb8a82f03cec877e
tree2d34c6fd334b51cc5f3265cd4ec26db758639b5c
parentf4e53d910b7dde2685b177f1e7c3e3e0b4a42f7b
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>
ipc/shm.c
mm/mempolicy.c