[patch 09/10] Memoryless node: Allow profiling data to fall back to other nodes

[clameter@sgi.com]

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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>

Index: linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/kernel/profile.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2.orig/kernel/profile.c	2007-06-13 23:36:42.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.22-rc4-mm2/kernel/profile.c	2007-06-13 23:36:55.000000000 -0700
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static int __devinit profile_cpu_callbac
 		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_callbac
 		}
 		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;

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