Re: mm: frontswap: fix a wrong if condition in frontswap_shrink

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Sep 21 2012 - 03:24:01 EST


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:29:56AM +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> pages_to_unuse is set to 0 to unuse all frontswap pages
> But that doesn't happen since a wrong condition in frontswap_shrink
> cancels it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/frontswap.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
> index 6b3e71a..db2a86f 100644
> --- a/mm/frontswap.c
> +++ b/mm/frontswap.c
> @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static int __frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages,
> if (total_pages <= target_pages) {
> /* Nothing to do */
> *pages_to_unuse = 0;
> - return 0;
> + return 1;
> }

This function used to return 0 or an error code. Could we add a
comment at the top saying what the return values mean.

regards,
dan carpenter

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