Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: memcontrol: remove dead code from memory_max_write()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Oct 23 2019 - 02:51:01 EST


On Tue 22-10-19 16:15:17, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> When the reclaim loop in memory_max_write() is ^C'd or similar, we set
> err to -EINTR. But we don't return err. Once the limit is set, we
> always return success (nbytes). Delete the dead code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 055975b0b3a3..ff90d4e7df37 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -6122,10 +6122,8 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
> if (nr_pages <= max)
> break;
>
> - if (signal_pending(current)) {
> - err = -EINTR;
> + if (signal_pending(current))
> break;
> - }
>
> if (!drained) {
> drain_all_stock(memcg);
> --
> 2.23.0
>

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs