Re: [v3 PATCH] mm: move_pages: return valid node id in status if the page is already on the target node

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Dec 06 2019 - 02:35:32 EST


On Thu 05-12-19 19:45:49, Cristopher Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2019, Yang Shi wrote:
>
> > Felix Abecassis reports move_pages() would return random status if the
> > pages are already on the target node by the below test program:
>
> Looks ok.
>
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Nitpicks:
>
> > @@ -1553,7 +1555,7 @@ static int add_page_for_migration(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> > if (PageHuge(page)) {
> > if (PageHead(page)) {
> > isolate_huge_page(page, pagelist);
> > - err = 0;
> > + err = 1;
>
> Add a meaningful constant instead of 1?

Well 1 has a good meaning here actually. We have -errno or the number of
queued pages.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs