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Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL]

From	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS\|AGAIN\|FAIL]
Date	2017-03-16 07:00 +0100
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On (03/16/17 14:51), Minchan Kim wrote:
[..]
> > > @@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > >  			 */
> > >  			if (unlikely(PageSwapBacked(page) != PageSwapCache(page))) {
> > >  				WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> > > -				ret = SWAP_FAIL;
> > > +				ret = false;
> > >  				page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
> > >  				break;
> > >  			}
> > 
> > 
> > one thing to notice here is that 'ret = false' and 'ret = SWAP_FAIL'
> > are not the same and must produce different results. `ret' is bool
> > and SWAP_FAIL was 2. it's return 1 vs return 0, isn't it? so was
> > there a bug before?
> 
> No, it was not a bug. Just my patchset changed return value meaning.
> Look at this.
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=148955552314806&w=2
> 
> So, false means SWAP_FAIL(ie., stop rmap scanning and bail out) now.

ah, indeed. sorry, didn't notice that.

thanks.

	-ss

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[PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL] Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-15 06:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL] Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 05:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL] Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 06:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL] Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 06:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL] Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2017-03-16 07:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL] Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> - 2017-03-16 07:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] mm: remove SWAP_[SUCCESS|AGAIN|FAIL] kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-03-16 20:00 +0100

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