Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: fix possible incorrect return value ofmigrate_pages() syscall

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Jul 16 2012 - 13:26:42 EST


On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote

> do_migrate_pages() can return the number of pages not migrated.
> Because migrate_pages() syscall return this value directly,
> migrate_pages() syscall may return the number of pages not migrated.
> In fail case in migrate_pages() syscall, we should return error value.
> So change err to -EIO

Pages are not migrated because they are busy not because there is an
error. So lets return EBUSY.
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