From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F4EA6B0083 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:27:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 22:26:48 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: [PATCH 3/3] ksm: mremap use err from ksm_madvise In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Izik Eidus , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: mremap move's use of ksm_madvise() was assuming -ENOMEM on failure, because ksm_madvise used to say -EAGAIN for that; but ksm_madvise now says -ENOMEM (letting madvise convert that to -EAGAIN), and can also say -ERESTARTSYS when signalled: so pass the error from ksm_madvise. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins --- mm/mremap.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- mmotm/mm/mremap.c 2009-09-05 14:40:16.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/mm/mremap.c 2009-09-05 16:41:55.000000000 +0100 @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_ unsigned long excess = 0; unsigned long hiwater_vm; int split = 0; + int err; /* * We'd prefer to avoid failure later on in do_munmap: @@ -190,9 +191,10 @@ static unsigned long move_vma(struct vm_ * pages recently unmapped. But leave vma->vm_flags as it was, * so KSM can come around to merge on vma and new_vma afterwards. */ - if (ksm_madvise(vma, old_addr, old_addr + old_len, - MADV_UNMERGEABLE, &vm_flags)) - return -ENOMEM; + err = ksm_madvise(vma, old_addr, old_addr + old_len, + MADV_UNMERGEABLE, &vm_flags); + if (err) + return err; new_pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((old_addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT); new_vma = copy_vma(&vma, new_addr, new_len, new_pgoff); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org