After the patch:

commit 0b2f630a
Author: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 25 01:47:21 2008 -0700

    cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update_nodemask()

It might happen that 'echo 0 > /cpuset/sub/cpus' returned failure but 'cpus'
has been changed, because cpus was changed before calling heap_init() which
may return -ENOMEM.

This patch restores the orginal behavior.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>