mm: mempolicy: Make MPOL_LOCAL a real policy

Make MPOL_LOCAL a real and exposed policy such that applications that
relied on the previous default behaviour can explicitly request it.
Requested-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ enum {
 	MPOL_PREFERRED,
 	MPOL_BIND,
 	MPOL_INTERLEAVE,
+	MPOL_LOCAL,
 	MPOL_MAX,	/* always last member of enum */
 };
 

mm/mempolicy.c

@@ -269,6 +269,10 @@ static struct mempolicy *mpol_new(unsigned short mode, unsigned short flags,
 			     (flags & MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES)))
 				return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 		}
+	} else if (mode == MPOL_LOCAL) {
+		if (!nodes_empty(*nodes))
+			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+		mode = MPOL_PREFERRED;
 	} else if (nodes_empty(*nodes))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	policy = kmem_cache_alloc(policy_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -2399,7 +2403,6 @@ void numa_default_policy(void)
  * "local" is pseudo-policy:  MPOL_PREFERRED with MPOL_F_LOCAL flag
  * Used only for mpol_parse_str() and mpol_to_str()
  */
-#define MPOL_LOCAL MPOL_MAX
 static const char * const policy_modes[] =
 {
 	[MPOL_DEFAULT]    = "default",
@@ -2452,12 +2455,12 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol, int no_context)
 	if (flags)
 		*flags++ = '\0';	/* terminate mode string */
 
-	for (mode = 0; mode <= MPOL_LOCAL; mode++) {
+	for (mode = 0; mode < MPOL_MAX; mode++) {
 		if (!strcmp(str, policy_modes[mode])) {
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-	if (mode > MPOL_LOCAL)
+	if (mode >= MPOL_MAX)
 		goto out;
 
 	switch (mode) {