linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: return EAGAIN when receiving a pending signal in the defrag loops

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Date:   Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:17:23 +0100
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     xiakaixu1987@...il.com
Cc:     clm@...com, josef@...icpanda.com, dsterba@...e.com,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: return EAGAIN when receiving a pending signal
 in the defrag loops

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:02:36PM +0800, xiakaixu1987@...il.com wrote:
> From: Kaixu Xia <kaixuxia@...cent.com>
> 
> The variable ret is overwritten by the following variable defrag_count.
> Actually the code should return EAGAIN when receiving a pending signal
> in the defrag loops.

This lacks explanation why is EAGAIN supposed to be the right return
value. This is about semantics of the FITRIM ioctl, changing that would
affect userspace applications.