mm/hugetlb: add dedicated func to get 'allowed' nodemask for current process
Muchun Song found that after MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy was introduced in commit b27abacc ("mm/mempolicy: add MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY for multiple preferred nodes"), the policy_nodemask_current()'s semantics for this new policy has been changed, which returns 'preferred' nodes instead of 'allowed' nodes. With the changed semantic of policy_nodemask_current, a task with MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy could fail to get its reservation even though it can fall back to other nodes (either defined by cpusets or all online nodes) for that reservation failing mmap calles unnecessarily early. The fix is to not consider MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY for reservations at all because they, unlike MPOL_MBIND, do not pose any actual hard constrain. Michal suggested the policy_nodemask_current() is only used by hugetlb, and could be moved to hugetlb code with more explicit name to enforce the 'allowed' semantics for which only MPOL_BIND policy matters. apply_policy_zone() is made extern to be called in hugetlb code and its return value is changed to bool. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220801084207.39086-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com/t/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220805005903.95563-1-feng.tang@intel.com Fixes: b27abacc ("mm/mempolicy: add MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY for multiple preferred nodes") Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Reported-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Ben Widawsky <bwidawsk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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