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authorBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>2023-02-15 18:39:34 +0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-20 12:46:17 -0800
commitbe2d57563822b7e00b2b16d9354637c4b6d6d5cc (patch)
tree85ff064773b40be9cb98cf543c0633a7e77d4779 /mm/internal.h
parentd5d469247264e56960705dc5ae7e1d014861fe40 (diff)
mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru()
Patch series "Change the return value for page isolation functions", v3. Now the page isolation functions did not return a boolean to indicate success or not, instead it will return a negative error when failed to isolate a page. So below code used in most places seem a boolean success/failure thing, which can confuse people whether the isolation is successful. if (folio_isolate_lru(folio)) continue; Moreover the page isolation functions only return 0 or -EBUSY, and most users did not care about the negative error except for few users, thus we can convert all page isolation functions to return a boolean value, which can remove the confusion to make code more clear. No functional changes intended in this patch series. This patch (of 4): Now the folio_isolate_lru() did not return a boolean value to indicate isolation success or not, however below code checking the return value can make people think that it was a boolean success/failure thing, which makes people easy to make mistakes (see the fix patch[1]). if (folio_isolate_lru(folio)) continue; Thus it's better to check the negative error value expilictly returned by folio_isolate_lru(), which makes code more clear per Linus's suggestion[2]. Moreover Matthew suggested we can convert the isolation functions to return a boolean[3], since most users did not care about the negative error value, and can also remove the confusing of checking return value. So this patch converts the folio_isolate_lru() to return a boolean value, which means return 'true' to indicate the folio isolation is successful, and 'false' means a failure to isolation. Meanwhile changing all users' logic of checking the isolation state. No functional changes intended. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230131063206.28820-1-Kuan-Ying.Lee@mediatek.com/T/#u [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiBrY+O-4=2mrbVyxR+hOqfdJ=Do6xoucfJ9_5az01L4Q@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y+sTFqwMNAjDvxw3@casper.infradead.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1676424378.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a4e3679ed4196168efadf7ea36c038f2f7d5aa9.1676424378.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index dfb37e94e140..8645e8496537 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ pgprot_t __init early_memremap_pgprot_adjust(resource_size_t phys_addr,
* in mm/vmscan.c:
*/
int isolate_lru_page(struct page *page);
-int folio_isolate_lru(struct folio *folio);
+bool folio_isolate_lru(struct folio *folio);
void putback_lru_page(struct page *page);
void folio_putback_lru(struct folio *folio);
extern void reclaim_throttle(pg_data_t *pgdat, enum vmscan_throttle_state reason);