Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] mm, mempolicy: stop adjusting current->il_next in mpol_rebind_nodemask()

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On Wed, 17 May 2017, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> The task->il_next variable stores the next allocation node id for task's
> MPOL_INTERLEAVE policy. mpol_rebind_nodemask() updates interleave and
> bind mempolicies due to changing cpuset mems. Currently it also tries to
> make sure that current->il_next is valid within the updated nodemask. This is
> bogus, because 1) we are updating potentially any task's mempolicy, not just
> current, and 2) we might be updating a per-vma mempolicy, not task one.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

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