to establish the task policy for a child task exec()'d from an
executable image that has no awareness of memory policy. See the
MEMORY POLICY APIS section, below, for an overview of the system call
- that a task may use to set/change it's task/process policy.
+ that a task may use to set/change its task/process policy.
In a multi-threaded task, task policies apply only to the thread
[Linux kernel task] that installs the policy and any threads
the structure back to the mempolicy kmem cache when the reference count
goes to zero.
-When a new memory policy is allocated, it's reference count is initialized
+When a new memory policy is allocated, its reference count is initialized
to '1', representing the reference held by the task that is installing the
new policy. When a pointer to a memory policy structure is stored in another
structure, another reference is added, as the task's reference will be dropped