Re: [PATCH v2] mm: vmscan: add VM_BUG_ON on illegal return valuesfrom scan_objects

[Glauber Costa]

On 05/21/2013 11:17 AM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> It seems to me relaxing the shrinker API restrictions and changing the
> "ret == -1" to "ret < 0" would be a much more robust approach...

Dave had already spoken against it, and I agree with him
Anybody returning any negative value different than -1 is definitely
doing something strange


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