linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: fix zs_init cpu notifier error handling

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:14:33 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Mahendran Ganesh <opensource.ganesh@...il.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>, linux-mm@...ck.or,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zsmalloc: fix zs_init cpu notifier error handling

On (11/18/14 14:12), Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Mahendran Ganesh reported that zpool-enabled zsmalloc should not
> > call zpool_unregister_driver() from zs_init() if cpu notifier
> > registration has failed, because error handling is performed
> > before we register the driver via zpool_register_driver() call.
> > 
> > Factor out cpu notifier registration and unregistration code and
> > fix zs_init() error handling.
> 
> 
> So we can now do this, yes?

yes, sir.

I didn't do this because I though Mahendran would resend his
patch.

thank you.

	-ss

> 
> --- a/mm/zsmalloc.c~mm-zsmallocc-use-__init-and-__exit
> +++ a/mm/zsmalloc.c
> @@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ static int zs_register_cpu_notifier(void
>  	return notifier_to_errno(ret);
>  }
>  
> -static void zs_exit(void)
> +static void __exit zs_exit(void)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ZPOOL
>  	zpool_unregister_driver(&zs_zpool_driver);
> @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ static void zs_exit(void)
>  	zs_unregister_cpu_notifier();
>  }
>  
> -static int zs_init(void)
> +static int __init zs_init(void)
>  {
>  	int ret = zs_register_cpu_notifier();
>  
> 
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