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authorMel Gorman <[email protected]>2013-10-07 11:29:04 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2013-10-09 12:40:31 +0200
commit9ff1d9ff3c2c8ab3feaeb2e8056a07ca293f7bde (patch)
tree678236662d8e0eb734dc7aeb011e50f81b7e9a06
parentac8e895bd260cb8bb19ade6a3abd44e7abe9a01d (diff)
sched/numa: Check current->mm before allocating NUMA faults
task_numa_placement checks current->mm but after buffers for faults have already been uselessly allocated. Move the check earlier. [[email protected]: Identified the problem] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/fair.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 89eeb89fd99a..3383079b1508 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;