mm: mempolicy: Make MPOL_LOCAL a real policy

Make MPOL_LOCAL a real and exposed policy such that applications that
relied on the previous default behaviour can explicitly request it.

Requested-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 66e90ecc2350..54bd3e5ed776 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -269,6 +269,10 @@ static struct mempolicy *mpol_new(unsigned short mode, unsigned short flags,
                              (flags & MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES)))
                                 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
                 }
+        } else if (mode == MPOL_LOCAL) {
+                if (!nodes_empty(*nodes))
+                        return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+                mode = MPOL_PREFERRED;
         } else if (nodes_empty(*nodes))
                 return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
         policy = kmem_cache_alloc(policy_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -2399,7 +2403,6 @@ void numa_default_policy(void)
  * "local" is pseudo-policy:  MPOL_PREFERRED with MPOL_F_LOCAL flag
  * Used only for mpol_parse_str() and mpol_to_str()
  */
-#define MPOL_LOCAL MPOL_MAX
 static const char * const policy_modes[] =
 {
         [MPOL_DEFAULT]    = "default",
@@ -2452,12 +2455,12 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol, int no_context)
         if (flags)
                 *flags++ = '\0';        /* terminate mode string */
 
-        for (mode = 0; mode <= MPOL_LOCAL; mode++) {
+        for (mode = 0; mode < MPOL_MAX; mode++) {
                 if (!strcmp(str, policy_modes[mode])) {
                         break;
                 }
         }
-        if (mode > MPOL_LOCAL)
+        if (mode >= MPOL_MAX)
                 goto out;
 
         switch (mode) {