mempolicy: fix get_mempolicy() for relative and static nodes
Discovered while testing other mempolicy changes:
get_mempolicy() does not handle static/relative mode flags correctly.
Return the value that the user specified so that it can be restored
via set_mempolicy() if desired.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 6cdfa1d..8034abd 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -806,9 +806,13 @@
err = 0;
if (nmask) {
- task_lock(current);
- get_policy_nodemask(pol, nmask);
- task_unlock(current);
+ if (mpol_store_user_nodemask(pol)) {
+ *nmask = pol->w.user_nodemask;
+ } else {
+ task_lock(current);
+ get_policy_nodemask(pol, nmask);
+ task_unlock(current);
+ }
}
out: