From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 4/4 v3] mm: fix possible incorrect return value of move_pages() syscall
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:29:05 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1207301425410.28838@router.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAmzW4MdiJOaZW_b+fz1uYyj0asTCveN=24st4xKymKEvkzdgQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, JoonSoo Kim wrote:
> 2012/7/28 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>:
> > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> >
> >> move_pages() syscall may return success in case that
> >> do_move_page_to_node_array return positive value which means migration failed.
> >
> > Nope. It only means that the migration for some pages has failed. This may
> > still be considered successful for the app if it moves 10000 pages and one
> > failed.
> >
> > This patch would break the move_pages() syscall because an error code
> > return from do_move_pages_to_node_array() will cause the status byte for
> > each page move to not be updated anymore. Application will not be able to
> > tell anymore which pages were successfully moved and which are not.
>
> In case of returning non-zero, valid status is not required according
> to man page.
Cannot find a statement like that in the man page. The return code
description is incorrect. It should that that is returns the number of
pages not moved otherwise an error code (Michael please fix the manpage).
> So, this patch would not break the move_pages() syscall.
It changes the way the system call is behaving right now.
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2012-07-16 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: correct return value of migrate_pages() Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-16 16:14 ` [PATCH 2/3] mm: fix possible incorrect return value of migrate_pages() syscall Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-16 17:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-16 17:40 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-07-16 17:59 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-17 13:02 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-07-16 16:14 ` [PATCH 3/3] mm: fix return value in __alloc_contig_migrate_range() Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-16 17:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-16 17:40 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-07-16 18:40 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-17 13:16 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-07-16 17:14 ` [PATCH 4] mm: fix possible incorrect return value of move_pages() syscall Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-16 17:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-16 17:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: correct return value of migrate_pages() Christoph Lameter
2012-07-16 17:32 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-16 17:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-16 17:40 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-07-16 17:57 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-16 18:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-17 12:33 ` [PATCH 1/4 v2] mm: correct return value of migrate_pages() and migrate_huge_pages() Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-17 12:33 ` [PATCH 2/4 v2] mm: fix possible incorrect return value of migrate_pages() syscall Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-17 14:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-17 15:41 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-17 12:33 ` [PATCH 3/4 v2] mm: fix return value in __alloc_contig_migrate_range() Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-17 13:25 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2012-07-17 15:45 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-17 15:49 ` [PATCH 3/4 v3] " Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-17 12:33 ` [PATCH 4/4 v2] mm: fix possible incorrect return value of move_pages() syscall Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-27 17:55 ` [RESEND PATCH 1/4 v3] mm: correct return value of migrate_pages() and migrate_huge_pages() Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-27 17:55 ` [RESEND PATCH 2/4 v3] mm: fix possible incorrect return value of migrate_pages() syscall Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-27 20:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-28 6:16 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-30 19:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-27 17:55 ` [RESEND PATCH 3/4 v3] mm: fix return value in __alloc_contig_migrate_range() Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-27 17:55 ` [RESEND PATCH 4/4 v3] mm: fix possible incorrect return value of move_pages() syscall Joonsoo Kim
2012-07-27 20:54 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-07-28 6:09 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-30 19:29 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2012-07-31 3:34 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-07-31 14:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-01 5:15 ` Michael Kerrisk
2012-08-01 18:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-02 5:52 ` Michael Kerrisk
2012-08-24 16:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] slub: rename cpu_partial to max_cpu_object Joonsoo Kim
2012-08-24 16:05 ` [PATCH 2/2] slub: correct the calculation of the number of cpu objects in get_partial_node Joonsoo Kim
2012-08-24 16:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-24 16:28 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-08-24 16:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-08-24 16:40 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-08-24 16:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] slub: rename cpu_partial to max_cpu_object Christoph Lameter
2012-08-25 14:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab Joonsoo Kim
2012-08-25 14:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] slab: fix starting index for finding another object Joonsoo Kim
2012-09-03 10:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] slab: do ClearSlabPfmemalloc() for all pages of slab Mel Gorman
2012-10-20 15:48 ` [PATCH for-v3.7 1/2] slub: optimize poorly inlined kmalloc* functions Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-20 15:48 ` [PATCH for-v3.7 2/2] slub: optimize kmalloc* inlining for GFP_DMA Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-22 14:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-23 2:29 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-23 6:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-10-23 16:12 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-24 8:05 ` [PATCH for-v3.7 1/2] slub: optimize poorly inlined kmalloc* functions Pekka Enberg
2012-10-24 13:36 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-10-28 19:12 ` [PATCH 0/5] minor clean-up and optimize highmem related code Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-28 19:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm, highmem: use PKMAP_NR() to calculate an index of pkmap Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-29 1:48 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-28 19:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm, highmem: remove useless pool_lock Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-29 1:52 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-30 21:31 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-31 5:14 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-31 15:01 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-28 19:12 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm, highmem: remove page_address_pool list Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-29 1:57 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-28 19:12 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm, highmem: makes flush_all_zero_pkmaps() return index of last flushed entry Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-29 2:06 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-29 13:12 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-28 19:12 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm, highmem: get virtual address of the page using PKMAP_ADDR() Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-29 2:09 ` Minchan Kim
2012-10-29 2:12 ` [PATCH 0/5] minor clean-up and optimize highmem related code Minchan Kim
2012-10-29 13:15 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-31 17:11 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-31 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 " Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-31 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] mm, highmem: use PKMAP_NR() to calculate an index of pkmap Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-31 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] mm, highmem: remove useless pool_lock Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-31 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] mm, highmem: remove page_address_pool list Joonsoo Kim
2012-10-31 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] mm, highmem: makes flush_all_zero_pkmaps() return index of first flushed entry Joonsoo Kim
2012-11-01 5:03 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-02 19:07 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-11-02 22:42 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-13 0:30 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-11-13 12:49 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-13 14:12 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-11-13 15:01 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-14 17:09 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-11-19 23:46 ` Minchan Kim
2012-11-27 15:01 ` JoonSoo Kim
2012-10-31 16:56 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] mm, highmem: get virtual address of the page using PKMAP_ADDR() Joonsoo Kim
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