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Re: [RFC 00/11] make try_to_unmap simple

From Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC 00/11] make try_to_unmap simple
Date 2017-03-02 15:30 +0100
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On 03/02/2017 12:09 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Currently, try_to_unmap returns various return value(SWAP_SUCCESS,
> SWAP_FAIL, SWAP_AGAIN, SWAP_DIRTY and SWAP_MLOCK). When I look into
> that, it's unncessary complicated so this patch aims for cleaning
> it up. Change ttu to boolean function so we can remove SWAP_AGAIN,
> SWAP_DIRTY, SWAP_MLOCK.

It may be a trivial question but apart from being a cleanup does it
help in improving it's callers some way ? Any other benefits ?

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[RFC 00/11] make try_to_unmap simple Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
  [RFC 01/11] mm: use SWAP_SUCCESS instead of 0 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 01/11] mm: use SWAP_SUCCESS instead of 0 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-02 15:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC 01/11] mm: use SWAP_SUCCESS instead of 0 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-03 04:20 +0100
        Re: [RFC 01/11] mm: use SWAP_SUCCESS instead of 0 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-06 10:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC 01/11] mm: use SWAP_SUCCESS instead of 0 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-03-07 16:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC 01/11] mm: use SWAP_SUCCESS instead of 0 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-08 07:50 +0100
  [RFC 09/11] mm: make rmap_walk void function Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
  [RFC 08/11] mm: make ttu's return boolean Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 08/11] mm: make ttu's return boolean John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> - 2017-03-08 09:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 08/11] mm: make ttu's return boolean Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-09 07:40 +0100
        Re: [RFC 08/11] mm: make ttu's return boolean John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> - 2017-03-09 07:50 +0100
  [RFC 06/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK in ttu Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 06/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK in ttu Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-03 15:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC 06/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK in ttu Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-06 03:20 +0100
        Re: [RFC 06/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK in ttu "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-03-07 19:30 +0100
          Re: [RFC 06/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK in ttu Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-08 08:00 +0100
  [RFC 04/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK check for SWAP_SUCCESS in ttu Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 04/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK check for SWAP_SUCCESS in ttu Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-02 18:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC 04/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK check for SWAP_SUCCESS in ttu Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-03 05:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC 04/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK check for SWAP_SUCCESS in ttu "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-03-07 15:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC 04/11] mm: remove SWAP_MLOCK check for SWAP_SUCCESS in ttu Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-08 07:50 +0100
  [RFC 07/11] mm: remove SWAP_AGAIN in ttu Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 07/11] mm: remove SWAP_AGAIN in ttu Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-03 17:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC 07/11] mm: remove SWAP_AGAIN in ttu Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-06 03:40 +0100
  [RFC 02/11] mm: remove unncessary ret in page_referenced Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 02/11] mm: remove unncessary ret in page_referenced Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-02 19:20 +0100
      Re: [RFC 02/11] mm: remove unncessary ret in page_referenced Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-03 04:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC 02/11] mm: remove unncessary ret in page_referenced "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-03-07 15:40 +0100
  [RFC 05/11] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-02 08:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 05/11] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-03 12:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 05/11] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-06 03:10 +0100
        Re: [RFC 05/11] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-06 13:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC 05/11] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-07 09:30 +0100
            Re: [RFC 05/11] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-07 15:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC 05/11] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2017-03-07 16:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC 05/11] mm: make the try_to_munlock void function Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-08 07:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC 00/11] make try_to_unmap simple Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-02 15:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC 00/11] make try_to_unmap simple Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-03 03:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC 00/11] make try_to_unmap simple Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-03-03 10:10 +0100

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