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[PATCH] cpuset: memory migration interaction fix 

Fix memory migration so that it works regardless of what cpuset the invoking
task is in.

If a task invoked a memory migration, by doing one of:

       1) writing a different nodemask to a cpuset 'mems' file, or

       2) writing a tasks pid to a different cpuset's 'tasks' file,
          where the cpuset had its 'memory_migrate' option turned on, then the
          allocation of the new pages for the migrated task(s) was constrained
          by the invoking tasks cpuset.

If this task wasn't in a cpuset that allowed the requested memory nodes, the
memory migration would happen to some other nodes that were in that invoking
tasks cpuset.  This was usually surprising and puzzling behaviour: Why didn't
the pages move?  Why did the pages move -there-?

To fix this, temporarilly change the invoking tasks 'mems_allowed' task_struct
field to the nodes the migrating tasks is moving to, so that new pages can be
allocated there.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paul Jackson 2006-03-31 02:30:52 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2741a559a0
commit e4e364e865
1 changed files with 52 additions and 5 deletions
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kernel/cpuset.c
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@ -833,6 +833,55 @@ static int update_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf)
return 0;
}
/*
* cpuset_migrate_mm
*
* Migrate memory region from one set of nodes to another.
*
* Temporarilly set tasks mems_allowed to target nodes of migration,
* so that the migration code can allocate pages on these nodes.
*
* Call holding manage_mutex, so our current->cpuset won't change
* during this call, as manage_mutex holds off any attach_task()
* calls. Therefore we don't need to take task_lock around the
* call to guarantee_online_mems(), as we know no one is changing
* our tasks cpuset.
*
* Hold callback_mutex around the two modifications of our tasks
* mems_allowed to synchronize with cpuset_mems_allowed().
*
* While the mm_struct we are migrating is typically from some
* other task, the task_struct mems_allowed that we are hacking
* is for our current task, which must allocate new pages for that
* migrating memory region.
*
* We call cpuset_update_task_memory_state() before hacking
* our tasks mems_allowed, so that we are assured of being in
* sync with our tasks cpuset, and in particular, callbacks to
* cpuset_update_task_memory_state() from nested page allocations
* won't see any mismatch of our cpuset and task mems_generation
* values, so won't overwrite our hacked tasks mems_allowed
* nodemask.
*/
static void cpuset_migrate_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, const nodemask_t *from,
const nodemask_t *to)
{
struct task_struct *tsk = current;
cpuset_update_task_memory_state();
mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
tsk->mems_allowed = *to;
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
do_migrate_pages(mm, from, to, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
guarantee_online_mems(tsk->cpuset, &tsk->mems_allowed);
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
}
/*
* Handle user request to change the 'mems' memory placement
* of a cpuset. Needs to validate the request, update the
@ -945,10 +994,8 @@ static int update_nodemask(struct cpuset *cs, char *buf)
struct mm_struct *mm = mmarray[i];
mpol_rebind_mm(mm, &cs->mems_allowed);
if (migrate) {
do_migrate_pages(mm, &oldmem, &cs->mems_allowed,
MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
}
if (migrate)
cpuset_migrate_mm(mm, &oldmem, &cs->mems_allowed);
mmput(mm);
}
@ -1184,7 +1231,7 @@ static int attach_task(struct cpuset *cs, char *pidbuf, char **ppathbuf)
if (mm) {
mpol_rebind_mm(mm, &to);
if (is_memory_migrate(cs))
do_migrate_pages(mm, &from, &to, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL);
cpuset_migrate_mm(mm, &from, &to);
mmput(mm);
}