commit 010cfac4ca0f9e85f54ba2117a372e72f4fb9a60
author Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Thu Apr 02 16:57:52 2009 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Thu Apr 02 19:04:57 2009 -0700
tree 47b8ed65b2e3cdfe269794545995020947a667a6
parent 3b6766fe668b83c8a03c6ed01bcc2ac77cbae848

cpuset: avoid changing cpuset's mems when errno returned

When writing to cpuset.mems, cpuset has to update its mems_allowed before
calling update_tasks_nodemask(), but this function might return -ENOMEM.

To avoid this rare case, we allocate the memory before changing
mems_allowed, and then pass to update_tasks_nodemask().  Similar to what
update_cpumask() does.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>