Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/hwpoison: fix return value of madvise_hwpoison

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Mon Aug 26 2013 - 23:28:41 EST


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:39:31AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> The return value outside for loop is always zero which means madvise_hwpoison
> return success, however, this is not truth for soft_offline_page w/ failure
> return value.

I don't understand what you want to do for what reason. Could you clarify
those?

>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
> index a20764c..19b71e4 100644
> --- a/mm/madvise.c
> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
> @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ static int madvise_hwpoison(int bhv, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
> page_to_pfn(p), start);
> ret = soft_offline_page(p, MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
> if (ret)
> - break;
> + return ret;
> continue;
> }
> pr_info("Injecting memory failure for page %#lx at %#lx\n",

This seems to introduce no behavioral change.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi
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