From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com (mail-pa0-f48.google.com [209.85.220.48]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB1C9C0010 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 06:30:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id bj1so6997953pad.7 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 03:30:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 26/63] sched: Check current->mm before allocating NUMA faults Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 11:29:04 +0100 Message-Id: <1381141781-10992-27-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1381141781-10992-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1381141781-10992-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Peter Zijlstra , Rik van Riel Cc: Srikar Dronamraju , Ingo Molnar , Andrea Arcangeli , Johannes Weiner , Linux-MM , LKML , Mel Gorman task_numa_placement checks current->mm but after buffers for faults have already been uselessly allocated. Move the check earlier. [peterz@infradead.org: Identified the problem] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index dce3545..9eb384b 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -930,8 +930,6 @@ static void task_numa_placement(struct task_struct *p) int seq, nid, max_nid = -1; unsigned long max_faults = 0; - if (!p->mm) /* for example, ksmd faulting in a user's mm */ - return; seq = ACCESS_ONCE(p->mm->numa_scan_seq); if (p->numa_scan_seq == seq) return; @@ -998,6 +996,10 @@ void task_numa_fault(int last_nid, int node, int pages, bool migrated) if (!numabalancing_enabled) return; + /* for example, ksmd faulting in a user's mm */ + if (!p->mm) + return; + /* For now, do not attempt to detect private/shared accesses */ priv = 1; -- 1.8.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org