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

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Date:   Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:07:26 +0800
From:   "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:     Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Cc:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        <shy828301@...il.com>, <willy@...radead.org>, <ziy@...dia.com>,
        <minchan@...nel.org>, <apopple@...dia.com>,
        <ave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, <o451686892@...il.com>,
        <almasrymina@...gle.com>, <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        <rcampbell@...dia.com>, <peterx@...hat.com>,
        <naoya.horiguchi@....com>, <mhocko@...e.com>, <riel@...hat.com>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] mm/migration: return errno when isolate_huge_page
 failed

Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com> writes:

> 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>
> ---
>  mm/migrate.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 6c2dfed2ddb8..279940c0c064 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1618,10 +1618,8 @@ static int add_page_for_migration(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>  		goto out_putpage;
>  
>  	if (PageHuge(page)) {
> -		if (PageHead(page)) {
> -			isolate_huge_page(page, pagelist);
> -			err = 1;
> -		}
> +		if (PageHead(page))
> +			err = isolate_huge_page(page, pagelist) ? 1 : -EBUSY;

IMHO, it's better to determine the proper errno inside
isolate_huge_page() instead of in the caller.  If you think it's
necessary to get errno here.  How about change isolate_huge_page()
instead?

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

>  	} else {
>  		struct page *head;