Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1163051Ab3DEWXK (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:23:10 -0400 Received: from mail-qa0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:36840 "EHLO mail-qa0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162991Ab3DEWXI (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Apr 2013 18:23:08 -0400 Message-ID: <515F4ECB.9050105@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:23:07 -0400 From: KOSAKI Motohiro User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Hocko CC: Naoya Horiguchi , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Hugh Dickins , KOSAKI Motohiro , Andi Kleen , Hillf Danton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] mbind: add hugepage migration code to mbind() References: <1363983835-20184-1-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> <1363983835-20184-8-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> <20130325134926.GZ2154@dhcp22.suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <20130325134926.GZ2154@dhcp22.suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1044 Lines: 24 >> - if (!new_hpage) >> + /* >> + * Getting a new hugepage with alloc_huge_page() (which can happen >> + * when migration is caused by mbind()) can return ERR_PTR value, >> + * so we need take care of the case here. >> + */ >> + if (!new_hpage || IS_ERR_VALUE(new_hpage)) >> return -ENOMEM; > > Please no. get_new_page returns NULL or a page. You are hooking a wrong > callback here. The error value doesn't make any sense here. IMO you > should just wrap alloc_huge_page by something that returns NULL or page. I suggest just opposite way. new_vma_page() always return ENOMEM, ENOSPC etc instad of NULL. and caller propegate it to userland. I guess userland want to distingush why mbind was failed. Anyway, If new_vma_page() have a change to return both NULL and -ENOMEM. That's a bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/