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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] String conversions for memory policy
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Christoph wrote:
> The problem is how to convert them back for display. Match the zones in 
> groups of three to the zones in a node and then print out the node?

What does get_mempolicy(2) do?  I doubt it assumes groups of three.
See further the case for MPOL_BIND, in mm/mempolicy.c:get_zonemask().

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