MPOL_LOCAL policy has been setup as a real policy, but it is still handled
like a faked POL_PREFERRED policy with one internal MPOL_F_LOCAL flag bit
set, and there are many places having to judge the real 'prefer' or the
'local' policy, which are quite confusing.
In current code, there are 4 cases that MPOL_LOCAL are used:
1. user specifies 'local' policy
2. user specifies 'prefer' policy, but with empty nodemask
3. system 'default' policy is used
4. 'prefer' policy + valid 'preferred' node with MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
flag set, and when it is 'rebind' to a nodemask which doesn't contains
the 'preferred' node, it will perform as 'local' policy
So make 'local' a real policy instead of a fake 'prefer' one, and kill
MPOL_F_LOCAL bit, which can greatly reduce the confusion for code reading.
For case 4, the logic of mpol_rebind_preferred() is confusing, as Michal
Hocko pointed out:
: I do believe that rebinding preferred policy is just bogus and it should
: be dropped altogether on the ground that a preference is a mere hint from
: userspace where to start the allocation. Unless I am missing something
: cpusets will be always authoritative for the final placement. The
: preferred node just acts as a starting point and it should be really
: preserved when cpusets changes. Otherwise we have a very subtle behavior
: corner cases.
So dump all the tricky transformation between 'prefer' and 'local', and
just record the new nodemask of rebinding.
[feng.tang@intel.com: fix a problem in mpol_set_nodemask(), per Michal Hocko]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1622560492-1294-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
[feng.tang@intel.com: refine code and comments of mpol_set_nodemask(), per Michal]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210603081807.GE56979@shbuild999.sh.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1622469956-82897-3-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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