Re: more numa maxnode confusions

Andrew Morton
2004-09-13T07:17:55Z

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> 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?