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

From: Yang Shi
Date: Thu Dec 05 2019 - 17:00:04 EST




On 12/5/19 11:45 AM, Christopher 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?

Since it just returns errno, 0 and 1 it sounds not worth a constant or enum.


out:
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
return err;
Dont do that.

Yes, my fat finger.