Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mm/gup.c: Refactor check_and_migrate_movable_pages()

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 01:35:12PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> How's this look to you:
> 
> 	collected = collect_longterm_unpinnable_pages(&movable_page_list,
> 						      nr_pages, pages);
> 	if (collected == 0)
> 		return 0;
> 
> 	ret = migrate_longterm_unpinnable_pages(&movable_page_list, nr_pages,
> 						pages);
> 
> 	/* If we got here, we have some unpinnable pages... */
> 
> 	if (ret == 0) {
> 		/*
> 		 * ...and we successfully migrated those pages. Which means that
> 		 * the caller should retry the operation now.
> 		 */
> 		ret = -EAGAIN;

return -EAGAIN

> 	}
> 
> 	return ret;

But why return 0 from the helper function in the first place?

Jason