Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/mempolicy: stop copying the nodemask in the interleave paths
From: Gregory Price
Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 07:38:23 EST
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 11:49:52AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> > RCU stabilizes the weights and makes accessing them safe. RCU doesn't
> > help us with the node bitmasks themselves (we were using a cpuset cookie
> > to stabilize them to take a copy - but we're killin that here).
>
> Ah, my memory comes back. So confusing.
>
mempolicy is nothing if not confusing.
> A resend is probably easiest when modifying the commit message.
>
ack, will spin it today.