Re: [PATCH 0/3] Some cleanups for page isolation

From: Baolin Wang
Date: Tue Feb 14 2023 - 01:50:04 EST




On 2/14/2023 12:50 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:18:05AM +0800, Baolin Wang wrote:
The page isolation functions did not return a boolean to indicate
success or not, instead it will return a negative error when failed
to isolate a page. So it's better to check the negative error explicitly
for isolation to make the code more clear per Linus's suggestion in [1].

Only one caller of isolate_lru_page() or folio_isolate_lru() actually
uses the errno. And the errno can only be 0 or -EBUSY. It'd be
better to change the three functions to return bool and fix
add_page_for_migration() to set the errno to -EBUSY itself.

Sounds reasonable to me, and I can change them to return bool in next version. Thanks.