Re: [patch for-3.14] mm, mempolicy: fix mempolicy printing innuma_maps

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jan 27 2014 - 05:50:29 EST


On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 07:12:35PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> As a result of commit 5606e3877ad8 ("mm: numa: Migrate on reference
> policy"), /proc/<pid>/numa_maps prints the mempolicy for any <pid> as
> "prefer:N" for the local node, N, of the process reading the file.
>
> This should only be printed when the mempolicy of <pid> is MPOL_PREFERRED
> for node N.
>
> If the process is actually only using the default mempolicy for local node
> allocation, make sure "default" is printed as expected.

Should we also consider printing the MOF and MORON states so we get a
better view of what the actual policy is?


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