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SubjectRe: [patch 1/5] mm: page_alloc: increase __GFP_BITS_SHIFT to include __GFP_OTHER_NODE
On 07/25/2011 04:19 PM, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> From: Johannes Weiner<hannes@cmpxchg.org>
>
> __GFP_OTHER_NODE is used for NUMA allocations on behalf of other
> nodes. It's supposed to be passed through from the page allocator to
> zone_statistics(), but it never gets there as gfp_allowed_mask is not
> wide enough and masks out the flag early in the allocation path.
>
> The result is an accounting glitch where successful NUMA allocations
> by-agent are not properly attributed as local.
>
> Increase __GFP_BITS_SHIFT so that it includes __GFP_OTHER_NODE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner<hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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