linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/16] mm/migration: return errno when isolate_huge

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Message-ID: <CAMZfGtVVoH+tkc7OrZAwWUKbxmj116xnTkyAod5kKj4jcWyoAA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 5 Mar 2022 10:23:17 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        ave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, o451686892@...il.com,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) 
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        riel@...hat.com, Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] mm/migration: return errno when isolate_huge_page failed

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 5:36 PM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> We should return errno (-EBUSY here) when failed to isolate the huge page
> rather than always return 1 which could confuse the user.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>

IIUC, this should be a bug fix since the status reported to the user is
wrong.  A Fixes tag may be needed.  But anyway:

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

Thanks.