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SubjectRe: [v2 PATCH 1/2] mm: mempolicy: make the behavior consistent when MPOL_MF_MOVE* and MPOL_MF_STRICT were specified
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On 7/16/19 10:12 AM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
>> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
>> @@ -429,11 +429,14 @@ static inline bool queue_pages_required(struct page *page,
>> }
>>
>> /*
>> - * queue_pages_pmd() has three possible return values:
>> + * queue_pages_pmd() has four possible return values:
>> + * 2 - there is unmovable page, and MPOL_MF_MOVE* & MPOL_MF_STRICT were
>> + * specified.
>> * 1 - pages are placed on the right node or queued successfully.
>> * 0 - THP was split.
>
> I think if you renumbered these, it would be more consistent with
> queue_pages_pte_range() and simplify the code there.
> 0 - pages on right node/queued
> 1 - unmovable page with right flags specified
> 2 - THP split

Ah, alternatively you could add a boolean to struct queue_pages
accessible from mm_walk, set true to indicate that unmovable page has
been encountered, without propagating it back through special return values.

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