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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] mm: remove return value from init_currently_empty_zone
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On March 30, 2017 7:55 PM Michal Hocko wrote: 
>
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> init_currently_empty_zone doesn't have any error to return yet it is
> still an int and callers try to be defensive and try to handle potential
> error. Remove this nonsense and simplify all callers.
>
It is already cut off in 1/6 in this series?

<snip>

> -/* Can fail with -ENOMEM from allocating a wait table with vmalloc() or
> - * alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic()/memblock_virt_alloc_node_nopanic() */
> -static int __ref ensure_zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone,
> +static void __ref ensure_zone_is_initialized(struct zone *zone,
> unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long num_pages)
> {
> - if (zone_is_empty(zone))
> - return init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, num_pages);
> -
> - return 0;
> + if (!zone_is_empty(zone))
> + init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, num_pages);
> }
Semantic change added?

Hillf

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