From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266233AbUIMHRz (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 03:17:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266242AbUIMHRz (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 03:17:55 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:14019 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266233AbUIMHRy (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 03:17:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 00:15:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andi Kleen Cc: pj@sgi.com, bcasavan@sgi.com, ak@suse.de, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: more numa maxnode confusions Message-Id: <20040913001548.278bf672.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040913065621.GB12185@wotan.suse.de> References: <20040912200253.3d7a6ff5.pj@sgi.com> <20040913065621.GB12185@wotan.suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:02:53PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > > 2) About Aug 9, Brent Casavant sent in a patch changing the set (not get) > > side calls, sys_mbind and sys_set_mempolicy, to N64. This patch > > removed the following line from the implementation of get_nodes() in > > mm/mempolicy.c: > > > > --maxnode; > > Ah, I wasn't aware that this patch got merged into mainline. > That was a bad thing, because it broke the ABI used by libnuma > subtly. > > Please whoever merged it revert it. Revert what? > ... > > Yes. I appended a patch. Linus or Andrew, please apply it. > Does this patch perform the above reversion, or is something additional needed?