linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: Return -EBUSY when migration fails

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Date:   Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:57:22 +0000
From:   HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口　直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>
To:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
CC:     "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com" <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        "vbabka@...e.cz" <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: Return -EBUSY when migration fails

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 10:28:18AM +0100, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> Currently, we return -EIO when we fail to migrate the page.
> 
> Migrations' failures are rather transient as they can happen due to
> several reasons, e.g: high page refcount bump, mapping->migrate_page
> failing etc.
> All meaning that at that time the page could not be migrated, but
> that has nothing to do with an EIO error.
> 
> Let us return -EBUSY instead, as we do in case we failed to isolate
> the page.
> 
> While are it, let us remove the "ret" print as its value does not change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@....com>