Re: [PATCH] mm: memory-failure: fix unexpected return value in soft_offline_page()

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Wed Jun 28 2023 - 21:48:41 EST


On 2023/6/28 19:06, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 09:56:38AM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> On 2023/6/28 3:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:28:08 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When page_handle_poison() fails to handle the hugepage or free page in
>>>> retry path, soft_offline_page() will return 0 while -EBUSY is expected
>>>> in this case.
>>>
>>> What are the user visible effects of the bug?
>>
>> The user will think soft_offline_page succeeds while it failed in fact. So user
>> will not try again later in this case.
>
> I think that it's helpful to put this in patch descrition so that maintainers can
> easily guess the impact of this patch.

Thanks for your review and advice. Will add it if v2 is needed.

>
> Anyway, the patch looks good to me, thank you.
>
> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>

Thanks Naoya.