Re: [PATCH v8 4/7] drm/shmem-helper: Add memory shrinker

[Dmitry Osipenko]

Hello Thomas,

On 11/9/22 13:28, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> +int drm_gem_shmem_set_evictable(struct drm_gem_shmem_object *shmem)
>> +{
>> +    dma_resv_lock(shmem->base.resv, NULL);
>> +
>> +    if (shmem->madv < 0) {
>> +        dma_resv_unlock(shmem->base.resv);
>> +        return -ENOMEM;
> 
> ENOMEM is not right here. It's for failed memory allocation. ENODEV
> seems more appropriate.

Had the same thought about ENOMEM and at one point was considering
ENOENT, but in the end decided it's not much better than ENOMEM.

> But why do we need an error here anyway? Why not just fail transparently?

I added the error handling everywhere for consistency. Perhaps indeed
will be better to fail transparently for now since nobody cares about
such errors and likely won't in the future.

The rest of the comments are also good to me, will start preparing the
v9. Thank you for the review!

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Best regards,
Dmitry