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Commit 523b9458 authored by Christoph Lameter's avatar Christoph Lameter Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Memoryless nodes: Fix GFP_THISNODE behavior



GFP_THISNODE checks that the zone selected is within the pgdat (node) of the
first zone of a nodelist.  That only works if the node has memory.  A
memoryless node will have its first node on another pgdat (node).

GFP_THISNODE currently will return simply memory on the first pgdat.  Thus it
is returning memory on other nodes.  GFP_THISNODE should fail if there is no
local memory on a node.

Add a new set of zonelists for each node that only contain the nodes that
belong to the zones itself so that no fallback is possible.

Then modify gfp_type to pickup the right zone based on the presence of
__GFP_THISNODE.

Drop the existing GFP_THISNODE checks from the page_allocators hot path.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: default avatarNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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