Re: [patch 3.5-rc3] mm, mempolicy: fix mbind() to do synchronousmigration

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Jun 21 2012 - 08:42:34 EST


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 06:00:12PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> If the range passed to mbind() is not allocated on nodes set in the
> nodemask, it migrates the pages to respect the constraint.
>
> The final formal of migrate_pages() is a mode of type enum migrate_mode,
> not a boolean. do_mbind() is currently passing "true" which is the
> equivalent of MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. This should instead be MIGRATE_SYNC
> for synchronous page migration.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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