mm: revert 0def08e3 ("mm/mempolicy.c: check return code of check_range")
authorMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:33:38 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:22:58 +0000 (16:22 +0900)
commit082708072a4250f5c4dbc62065e7af93f5e45646
treefc8cee89404845ea87f7fa203aec4cb612fb6933
parent6bdb913f0a70a4dfb7f066fb15e2d6f960701d00
mm: revert 0def08e3 ("mm/mempolicy.c: check return code of check_range")

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 <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c