Re: [PATCH v1] mm/madvise: pass return code of memory_failure() to userspace

[Naoya Horiguchi]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:27:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:27:57 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Currently the return value of memory_failure() is not passed to userspace, which
> > is inconvenient for test programs that want to know the result of error handling.
> > So let's return it to the caller as we already do in MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE case.
> 
> I updated this to mention that it's for madvise(MADV_HWPOISON):
> 
> : Currently the return value of memory_failure() is not passed to userspace
> : when madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) is used.  This is inconvenient for test
> : programs that want to know the result of error handling.  So let's return
> : it to the caller as we already do in the MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE case.

Thank you.

> btw, MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE and MADV_HWPOISON are not documented in that
> comment block over sys_madvise().  Fixy please?  You might want to
> check that no other MADV_foo values have been omitted.

OK, I posted the fix patch just now, which also updates about some other
madvices.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi