cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems

Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and
mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all
old unallowed bits later.  But in the way, the allocator may find that
there is no node to alloc memory.

The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the
nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example:

(mpol: mempolicy)
	task1			task1's mpol	task2
	alloc page		1
	  alloc on node0? NO	1
				1		change mems from 1 to 0
				1		rebind task1's mpol
				0-1		  set new bits
				0	  	  clear disallowed bits
	  alloc on node1? NO	0
	  ...
	can't alloc page
	  goto oom

This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly
allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits).  So we
use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading
nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after
read-side task ends the current memory allocation.

[[email protected]: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Menage <[email protected]>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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