On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
> wrote:
> > - return 0;
> > + return -EAGAIN;
>
> Maybe it's time to document the shmem_unuse_inode() return values.
Oh dear. I had hoped they would look after themselves. This one is a
private matter between shmem_unuse_inode and its one caller, just below.
> > + if (error) {
> > + if (error != -ENOMEM)
> > + error = 0;
> > mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(page, memcg);
> > } else
> > mem_cgroup_commit_charge(page, memcg, true);
>
> If I'm reading this correctly, shmem_unuse() can now return -EAGAIN and
> that can get all the way back to userspace. `man 2 swapoff' doesn't
> know this...
if (error) {
if (error != -ENOMEM)
error = 0;
...
return error;
So the only values returned from shmem_unuse_inode() to its caller
try_to_unuse() are 0 and -ENOMEM. Those may get passed back to the
user, but -EAGAIN was just an internal shmem.c detail.
Hugh
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