linux-kernel - [PATCH -v2] mm: frontswap: fix a wrong if condition in frontswap

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:40:30 +0800
From:	Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>
To:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
CC:	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	levinsasha928@...il.com, Feng Jin <joe.jin@...cle.com>,
	dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
	"zhenzhong.duan" <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH -v2] mm: frontswap: fix a wrong if condition in frontswap_shrink

pages_to_unuse is set to 0 to unuse all frontswap pages
But that doesn't happen since a wrong condition in frontswap_shrink
cancel it.

-v2: Add comment to explain return value of __frontswap_shrink,
as suggested by Dan Carpenter, thanks

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>

diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
index 6b3e71a..e38fc39 100644
--- a/mm/frontswap.c
+++ b/mm/frontswap.c
@@ -263,6 +263,11 @@ static int __frontswap_unuse_pages(unsigned long total, unsigned long *unused,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Used to check if it's necessory and feasible to unuse pages.
+ * Return 1 when nothing to do, 0 when need to shink pages,
+ * error code when there is an error.
+ */
 static int __frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages,
 				unsigned long *pages_to_unuse,
 				int *type)
@@ -275,7 +280,7 @@ static int __frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages,
 	if (total_pages <= target_pages) {
 		/* Nothing to do */
 		*pages_to_unuse = 0;
-		return 0;
+		return 1;
 	}
 	total_pages_to_unuse = total_pages - target_pages;
 	return __frontswap_unuse_pages(total_pages_to_unuse, pages_to_unuse, type);
@@ -302,7 +307,7 @@ void frontswap_shrink(unsigned long target_pages)
 	spin_lock(&swap_lock);
 	ret = __frontswap_shrink(target_pages, &pages_to_unuse, &type);
 	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
-	if (ret == 0 && pages_to_unuse)
+	if (ret == 0)
 		try_to_unuse(type, true, pages_to_unuse);
 	return;
 }
-- 
1.7.3

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