Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/migration: return errno when isolate_huge_page failed

[David Hildenbrand]

On 25.04.22 15:27, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> We might fail to isolate huge page due to e.g. the page is under migration
> which cleared HPageMigratable. So we should return -EBUSY in this case
> rather than always return 1 which could confuse the user. Also we make
> the prototype of isolate_huge_page consistent with isolate_lru_page to
> improve the readability.
> 
> Fixes: e8db67eb0ded ("mm: migrate: move_pages() supports thp migration")

If this is a fix, what's the runtime effect of it?

You state "could confuse", which doesn't indicate an actual BUG to me.


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb