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It seems strange that kernfs should be an outlier with a set_policy and
get_policy in its kernfs_vm_ops. Ah, it dates back to v2.6.30's commit
095160aee9 ("sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors"), when I had crashed on
powerpc's pci_mmap_legacy_page_range() fallback to shmem_zero_setup().
Well, that was commendably thorough, to give sysfs-bin a set_policy and
get_policy, just to avoid the way it was coded resulting in EINVAL from
mmap when CONFIG_NUMA; but somehow feels a bit over-the-top to me now.
It's easier to say that nobody should expect to manage a shmem object's
shared NUMA mempolicy via some kernfs backdoor to that object: delete that
code (and there's no longer an EINVAL from mmap in the NUMA case).
This then leaves set_policy/get_policy as implemented only by shmem -
though importantly also by SysV SHM, which has to interface with shmem
which implements them, and with SHM_HUGETLB which does not.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/302164-a760-4a9e-879b-6870c9b4013@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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