Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL]

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Mar 16 2017 - 01:44:39 EST


On (03/16/17 14:33), Minchan Kim wrote:
[..]
> "There is no user for it"
>
> I was liar so need to be a honest guy.

ha-ha-ha. I didn't say that :)

[..]
> @@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> */
> if (unlikely(PageSwapBacked(page) != PageSwapCache(page))) {
> WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> - ret = SWAP_FAIL;
> + ret = false;
> page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
> break;
> }


one thing to notice here is that 'ret = false' and 'ret = SWAP_FAIL'
are not the same and must produce different results. `ret' is bool
and SWAP_FAIL was 2. it's return 1 vs return 0, isn't it? so was
there a bug before?

-ss