On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > commit 71fe804b6d5 (mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in > shmem_sb_info) added mpol=local mount option. but its feature is > broken since it was born. because such code always return 1 (i.e. > mount failure). > > This patch fixes it. > > Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Thank you both for finding and fixing these mpol embarrassments. But if this "mpol=local" feature was never documented (not even in the commit log), has been broken since birth 20 months ago, and nobody has noticed: wouldn't it be better to save a little bloat and just rip it out? Hugh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>