3.2.61-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>

commit 082708072a4250f5c4dbc62065e7af93f5e45646 upstream.

Revert commit 0def08e3acc2 because check_range can't fail in
migrate_to_node with considering current usecases.

Quote from Johannes

: I think it makes sense to revert.  Not because of the semantics, but I
: just don't see how check_range() could even fail for this callsite:
:
: 1. we pass mm->mmap->vm_start in there, so we should not fail due to
:    find_vma()
:
: 2. we pass MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK, so the discontig checks do not apply
:    and so can not fail
:
: 3. we pass MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, the page table loops will
:    continue until addr == end, so we never fail with -EIO

And I added a new VM_BUG_ON for checking migrate_to_node's future usecase
which might pass to MPOL_MF_STRICT.

Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <sego...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -945,15 +945,18 @@ static int migrate_to_node(struct mm_str
        nodemask_t nmask;
        LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
        int err = 0;
-       struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 
        nodes_clear(nmask);
        node_set(source, nmask);
 
-       vma = check_range(mm, mm->mmap->vm_start, mm->task_size, &nmask,
+       /*
+        * This does not "check" the range but isolates all pages that
+        * need migration.  Between passing in the full user address
+        * space range and MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK, this call can not fail.
+        */
+       VM_BUG_ON(!(flags & (MPOL_MF_MOVE | MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL)));
+       check_range(mm, mm->mmap->vm_start, mm->task_size, &nmask,
                        flags | MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK, &pagelist);
-       if (IS_ERR(vma))
-               return PTR_ERR(vma);
 
        if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) {
                err = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_node_page, dest,

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