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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2008-02-12 13:30:22 +0900
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-11 20:48:29 -0800
commit31f1de46b90ad360a16e7af3e277d104961df923 (patch)
treea54e8698d4e4d088c4008e0ae91b579b13d2c208 /mm/mempolicy.c
parent1a510089849ff9f70b654659bf976a6baf3a4833 (diff)
mempolicy: silently restrict nodemask to allowed nodes
Kosaki Motohito noted that "numactl --interleave=all ..." failed in the presence of memoryless nodes. This patch attempts to fix that problem. Some background: numactl --interleave=all calls set_mempolicy(2) with a fully populated [out to MAXNUMNODES] nodemask. set_mempolicy() [in do_set_mempolicy()] calls contextualize_policy() which requires that the nodemask be a subset of the current task's mems_allowed; else EINVAL will be returned. A task's mems_allowed will always be a subset of node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] i.e., nodes with memory. So, a fully populated nodemask will be declared invalid if it includes memoryless nodes. NOTE: the same thing will occur when running in a cpuset with restricted mem_allowed--for the same reason: node mask contains dis-allowed nodes. mbind(2), on the other hand, just masks off any nodes in the nodemask that are not included in the caller's mems_allowed. In each case [mbind() and set_mempolicy()], mpol_check_policy() will complain [again, resulting in EINVAL] if the nodemask contains any memoryless nodes. This is somewhat redundant as mpol_new() will remove memoryless nodes for interleave policy, as will bind_zonelist()--called by mpol_new() for BIND policy. Proposed fix: 1) modify contextualize_policy logic to: a) remember whether the incoming node mask is empty. b) if not, restrict the nodemask to allowed nodes, as is currently done in-line for mbind(). This guarantees that the resulting mask includes only nodes with memory. NOTE: this is a [benign, IMO] change in behavior for set_mempolicy(). Dis-allowed nodes will be silently ignored, rather than returning an error. c) fold this code into mpol_check_policy(), replace 2 calls to contextualize_policy() to call mpol_check_policy() directly and remove contextualize_policy(). 2) In existing mpol_check_policy() logic, after "contextualization": a) MPOL_DEFAULT: require that in coming mask "was_empty" b) MPOL_{BIND|INTERLEAVE}: require that contextualized nodemask contains at least one node. c) add a case for MPOL_PREFERRED: if in coming was not empty and resulting mask IS empty, user specified invalid nodes. Return EINVAL. c) remove the now redundant check for memoryless nodes 3) remove the now redundant masking of policy nodes for interleave policy from mpol_new(). 4) Now that mpol_check_policy() contextualizes the nodemask, remove the in-line nodes_and() from sys_mbind(). I believe that this restores mbind() to the behavior before the memoryless-nodes patch series. E.g., we'll no longer treat an invalid nodemask with MPOL_PREFERRED as local allocation. [ Patch history: v1 -> v2: - Communicate whether or not incoming node mask was empty to mpol_check_policy() for better error checking. - As suggested by David Rientjes, remove the now unused cpuset_nodes_subset_current_mems_allowed() from cpuset.h v2 -> v3: - As suggested by Kosaki Motohito, fold the "contextualization" of policy nodemask into mpol_check_policy(). Looks a little cleaner. ] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c61
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 83c69f8a64c..8d246c3b340 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -116,22 +116,51 @@ static void mpol_rebind_policy(struct mempolicy *pol,
/* Do sanity checking on a policy */
static int mpol_check_policy(int mode, nodemask_t *nodes)
{
- int empty = nodes_empty(*nodes);
+ int was_empty, is_empty;
+
+ if (!nodes)
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * "Contextualize" the in-coming nodemast for cpusets:
+ * Remember whether in-coming nodemask was empty, If not,
+ * restrict the nodes to the allowed nodes in the cpuset.
+ * This is guaranteed to be a subset of nodes with memory.
+ */
+ cpuset_update_task_memory_state();
+ is_empty = was_empty = nodes_empty(*nodes);
+ if (!was_empty) {
+ nodes_and(*nodes, *nodes, cpuset_current_mems_allowed);
+ is_empty = nodes_empty(*nodes); /* after "contextualization" */
+ }
switch (mode) {
case MPOL_DEFAULT:
- if (!empty)
+ /*
+ * require caller to specify an empty nodemask
+ * before "contextualization"
+ */
+ if (!was_empty)
return -EINVAL;
break;
case MPOL_BIND:
case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
- /* Preferred will only use the first bit, but allow
- more for now. */
- if (empty)
+ /*
+ * require at least 1 valid node after "contextualization"
+ */
+ if (is_empty)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ case MPOL_PREFERRED:
+ /*
+ * Did caller specify invalid nodes?
+ * Don't silently accept this as "local allocation".
+ */
+ if (!was_empty && is_empty)
return -EINVAL;
break;
}
- return nodes_subset(*nodes, node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY]) ? 0 : -EINVAL;
+ return 0;
}
/* Generate a custom zonelist for the BIND policy. */
@@ -188,8 +217,6 @@ static struct mempolicy *mpol_new(int mode, nodemask_t *nodes)
switch (mode) {
case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
policy->v.nodes = *nodes;
- nodes_and(policy->v.nodes, policy->v.nodes,
- node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY]);
if (nodes_weight(policy->v.nodes) == 0) {
kmem_cache_free(policy_cache, policy);
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
@@ -421,18 +448,6 @@ static int mbind_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start,
return err;
}
-static int contextualize_policy(int mode, nodemask_t *nodes)
-{
- if (!nodes)
- return 0;
-
- cpuset_update_task_memory_state();
- if (!cpuset_nodes_subset_current_mems_allowed(*nodes))
- return -EINVAL;
- return mpol_check_policy(mode, nodes);
-}
-
-
/*
* Update task->flags PF_MEMPOLICY bit: set iff non-default
* mempolicy. Allows more rapid checking of this (combined perhaps
@@ -468,7 +483,7 @@ static long do_set_mempolicy(int mode, nodemask_t *nodes)
{
struct mempolicy *new;
- if (contextualize_policy(mode, nodes))
+ if (mpol_check_policy(mode, nodes))
return -EINVAL;
new = mpol_new(mode, nodes);
if (IS_ERR(new))
@@ -915,10 +930,6 @@ 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);
}