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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  2.6.23-rc6:  Fix NUMA Memory Policy Reference Counting
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:28:19 +0200
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> Handling policy ref counts for hugepages is a bit trickier.
> huge_zonelist() returns a zone list that might come from a 
> shared or vma 'BIND policy.  In this case, we should hold the
> reference until after the huge page allocation in 
> dequeue_hugepage().  The patch modifies huge_zonelist() to
> return a pointer to the mempolicy if it needs to be unref'd
> after allocation.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

Andrew, can you please queue that for .23?

-Andi