Re: [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: make mbind() return -EIO when MPOL_MF_STRICT is specified
From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Wed Mar 20 2019 - 14:49:36 EST
On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 11:31 -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> No, this is not correct. queue_pages_pmd() may return 0, which means
> THP
> gets split. If it returns 0 the code should just fall through instead
> of
> returning.
Right, I overlooked that.
> It sounds not correct to me. We need check if there is existing page
> on
> the node which is not allowed by the policy. This is what
> queue_pages_required() does.
Bleh, I guess it was too early in the morning.
That is the whole point of it actually, so that was quite wrong.
Sorry for trying to mislead you ;-)
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
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