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From: Miao Xie on 4 May 2010 07:00
Nick Piggin reported that the allocator may see an empty nodemask when changing
cpuset's mems[1]. It happens only on the kernel that do not do atomic nodemask_t
stores. (MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG)

But I found that there is also a problem on the kernel that can do atomic
nodemask_t stores. The problem is that the allocator can't find a node to
alloc page when changing cpuset's mems though there is a lot of free memory.
The reason is like this:
(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

I can use the attached program reproduce it by the following step:
# mkdir /dev/cpuset
# mount -t cpuset cpuset /dev/cpuset
# mkdir /dev/cpuset/1
# echo `cat /dev/cpuset/cpus` > /dev/cpuset/1/cpus
# echo `cat /dev/cpuset/mems` > /dev/cpuset/1/mems
# echo $$ > /dev/cpuset/1/tasks
# numactl --membind=`cat /dev/cpuset/mems` ./cpuset_mem_hog <nr_tasks> &
<nr_tasks> = max(nr_cpus - 1, 1)
# killall -s SIGUSR1 cpuset_mem_hog
# ./change_mems.sh

several hours later, oom will happen though there is a lot of free memory.

This patchset 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.

Changelog since V1:
- restructure the mempolicy's rebind functions, and split the rebind work to
two steps because the rebind functions may breaks the first step - expanding
the nodes range.

Thanks
Miao

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/18/111

[PATCH 1/2] mempolicy: restructure rebinding-mempolicy functions
[PATCH 2/2] cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems
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