[PATCH] Add __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes and ignore cpuset/memory policy restrictions
Add a new gfp flag __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes. This
flag is essential if a kernel component requires memory to be located on a
certain node. It will be needed for alloc_pages_node() to force allocation
on the indicated node and for alloc_pages() to force allocation on the
current node.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index c3429a7..8002e1f 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@
if ((gfp & __GFP_WAIT) && !in_interrupt())
cpuset_update_task_memory_state();
- if (!pol || in_interrupt())
+ if (!pol || in_interrupt() || (gfp & __GFP_THISNODE))
pol = &default_policy;
if (pol->policy == MPOL_INTERLEAVE)
return alloc_page_interleave(gfp, order, interleave_nodes(pol));