On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:50:09 +0800
Li Zefan [off-list ref] wrote:

+/*
+ * In functions that can't propogate errno to users, to avoid declaring a
+ * nodemask_t variable, and avoid using NODEMASK_ALLOC that can return
+ * -ENOMEM, we use this global cpuset_mems.
+ *
+ * It should be used with cgroup_lock held.

I'll do s/should/must/ - that would be a nasty bug.

I'd be more comfortable about the maintainability of this optimisation
if we had

	WARN_ON(!cgroup_is_locked());

at each site.

+ */
+static nodemask_t cpuset_mems;

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