Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.6.23-rc6: Fix NUMA Memory Policy Reference Counting | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:28:19 +0200 |
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> Handling policy ref counts for hugepages is a bit trickier. > huge_zonelist() returns a zone list that might come from a > shared or vma 'BIND policy. In this case, we should hold the > reference until after the huge page allocation in > dequeue_hugepage(). The patch modifies huge_zonelist() to > return a pointer to the mempolicy if it needs to be unref'd > after allocation.
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andrew, can you please queue that for .23?
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