mempolicy: add MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES flag

Adds another optional mode flag, MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES, that specifies
nodemasks passed via set_mempolicy() or mbind() should be considered relative
to the current task's mems_allowed.

When the mempolicy is created, the passed nodemask is folded and mapped onto
the current task's mems_allowed.  For example, consider a task using
set_mempolicy() to pass MPOL_INTERLEAVE | MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES with a
nodemask of 1-3.  If current's mems_allowed is 4-7, the effected nodemask is
5-7 (the second, third, and fourth node of mems_allowed).

If the same task is attached to a cpuset, the mempolicy nodemask is rebound
each time the mems are changed.  Some possible rebinds and results are:

	mems			result
	1-3			1-3
	1-7			2-4
	1,5-6			1,5-6
	1,5-7			5-7

Likewise, the zonelist built for MPOL_BIND acts on the set of zones assigned
to the resultant nodemask from the relative remap.

In the MPOL_PREFERRED case, the preferred node is remapped from the currently
effected nodemask to the relative nodemask.

This mempolicy mode flag was conceived of by Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>.

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index 07350d7b8d96..02b11efd7066 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -25,12 +25,13 @@ enum {
 
 /* Flags for set_mempolicy */
 #define MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES     (1 << 15)
+#define MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES   (1 << 14)
 
 /*
  * MPOL_MODE_FLAGS is the union of all possible optional mode flags passed to
  * either set_mempolicy() or mbind().
  */
-#define MPOL_MODE_FLAGS (MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES)
+#define MPOL_MODE_FLAGS (MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES | MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES)
 
 /* Flags for get_mempolicy */
 #define MPOL_F_NODE     (1<<0)  /* return next IL mode instead of node mask */