Mem Policy: add MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED get_mempolicy() flag
Allow an application to query the memories allowed by its context.
Updated numa_memory_policy.txt to mention that applications can use this to
obtain allowed memories for constructing valid policies.
TODO: update out-of-tree libnuma wrapper[s], or maybe add a new
wrapper--e.g., numa_get_mems_allowed() ?
Also, update numa syscall man pages.
Tested with memtoy V>=0.13.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index a020eb2..7e9698e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
/* Flags for get_mem_policy */
#define MPOL_F_NODE (1<<0) /* return next IL mode instead of node mask */
#define MPOL_F_ADDR (1<<1) /* look up vma using address */
+#define MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED (1<<2) /* return allowed memories */
/* Flags for mbind */
#define MPOL_MF_STRICT (1<<0) /* Verify existing pages in the mapping */