Re: [PATCH] memcg: fix return value of mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write()

[Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:10:52 +0800, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> When there are sub-dirs, writing to memory.use_hierarchy returns -EBUSY,
> this doesn't seem to fit the meaning of EBUSY, and is inconsistent with
> memory.swappiness, which returns -EINVAL in this case.
> 
I also think -EBUSY is not so bad in this case.

Thanks,
Daisuke Nishimura.

> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c |   10 +++++-----
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index bc8f101..2497f7d 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1760,6 +1760,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
>  	struct cgroup *parent = cont->parent;
>  	struct mem_cgroup *parent_mem = NULL;
>  
> +	if (val != 0 && val != 1)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	if (parent)
>  		parent_mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(parent);
>  
> @@ -1773,12 +1776,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
>  	 * set if there are no children.
>  	 */
>  	if ((!parent_mem || !parent_mem->use_hierarchy) &&
> -				(val == 1 || val == 0)) {
> -		if (list_empty(&cont->children))
> +	    list_empty(&cont->children))
>  			mem->use_hierarchy = val;
> -		else
> -			retval = -EBUSY;
> -	} else
> +	else
>  		retval = -EINVAL;
>  	cgroup_unlock();
>  
> -- 
> 1.5.4.rc3

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