linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -V6 06/21] swap: Support PMD swap mapping when splitting huge PMD

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Date:   Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:25:49 -0700
From:   Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
To:     Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V6 06/21] swap: Support PMD swap mapping when splitting
 huge PMD

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:19:09PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
> +/*
> + * The corresponding page table shouldn't be changed under us, that
> + * is, the page table lock should be held.
> + */
> +int split_swap_cluster_map(swp_entry_t entry)
> +{
> +	struct swap_info_struct *si;
> +	struct swap_cluster_info *ci;
> +	unsigned long offset = swp_offset(entry);
> +
> +	VM_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(offset, SWAPFILE_CLUSTER));
> +	si = _swap_info_get(entry);
> +	if (!si)
> +		return -EBUSY;

I think this return value doesn't get used anywhere?