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Memoryless nodes: Allow profiling data to fall back to other nodes

Processors on memoryless nodes must be able to fall back to remote nodes in
order to get a profiling buffer.  This may lead to excessive NUMA traffic but
I think we should allow this rather than failing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@skynet.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Christoph Lameter 17 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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      kernel/profile.c

+ 2 - 2
kernel/profile.c

@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static int __devinit profile_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *info,
 		per_cpu(cpu_profile_flip, cpu) = 0;
 		if (!per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[1]) {
 			page = alloc_pages_node(node,
-					GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE,
+					GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
 					0);
 			if (!page)
 				return NOTIFY_BAD;
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ static int __devinit profile_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *info,
 		}
 		if (!per_cpu(cpu_profile_hits, cpu)[0]) {
 			page = alloc_pages_node(node,
-					GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | GFP_THISNODE,
+					GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
 					0);
 			if (!page)
 				goto out_free;