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Commit b360edb4 authored by David Rientjes's avatar David Rientjes Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, mempolicy: migrate_to_node should only migrate to node



migrate_to_node() is intended to migrate a page from one source node to
a target node.

Today, migrate_to_node() could end up migrating to any node, not only
the target node.  This is because the page migration allocator,
new_node_page() does not pass __GFP_THISNODE to
alloc_pages_exact_node().  This causes the target node to be preferred
but allows fallback to any other node in order of affinity.

Prevent this by allocating with __GFP_THISNODE.  If memory is not
available, -ENOMEM will be returned as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3cb29d11
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