[PATCH v2 4/6] mm: mempolicy: intruduce a helper huge_nodemask()

[Huang Shijie]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:31:06AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Huang Shijie <shijie.huang at arm.com> writes:
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
> >  /*
> > + * huge_nodemask(@vma, @addr)
> > + * @vma: virtual memory area whose policy is sought
> > + * @addr: address in @vma for shared policy lookup and interleave policy
> > + *
> > + * If the effective policy is BIND, returns a pointer to the mempolicy's
> > + * @nodemask.
> > + */
> > +nodemask_t *huge_nodemask(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
> > +{
> > +	nodemask_t *nodes_mask = NULL;
> > +	struct mempolicy *mpol = get_vma_policy(vma, addr);
> > +
> > +	if (mpol->mode == MPOL_BIND)
> > +		nodes_mask = &mpol->v.nodes;
> > +	mpol_cond_put(mpol);
> 
> What if it is MPOL_PREFERED or MPOL_INTERLEAVE ? we don't honor node
> mask in that case ?
> 
I suddenly find maybe I should follow init_nodemask_of_mempolicy(), not the
huge_zonelist(). Is it okay?

Thanks
Huang Shijie