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* [PATCH]mm/migrate.c: clean up comment
@ 2011-05-06 16:03 Figo.zhang
  2011-05-09 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Figo.zhang @ 2011-05-06 16:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml, linux-mm@kvack.org; +Cc: Andrew Morton


clean up comment. prepare cgroup return 0 or -ENOMEN, others return -EAGAIN.
avoid conflict meanings.

Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
---
mm/migrate.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 34132f8..d65b351 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -647,7 +647,6 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
 		if (unlikely(split_huge_page(page)))
 			goto move_newpage;
 
-	/* prepare cgroup just returns 0 or -ENOMEM */
 	rc = -EAGAIN;
 
 	if (!trylock_page(page)) {
@@ -687,7 +686,7 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
 		goto unlock;
 	}
 
-	/* charge against new page */
+	/* charge against new page, return 0 or -ENOMEM */
 	charge = mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(page, newpage, &mem, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (charge == -ENOMEM) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;


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* Re: [PATCH]mm/migrate.c: clean up comment
  2011-05-06 16:03 [PATCH]mm/migrate.c: clean up comment Figo.zhang
@ 2011-05-09 21:13 ` Andrew Morton
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Morton @ 2011-05-09 21:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Figo.zhang; +Cc: lkml, linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman

On Sat, 07 May 2011 00:03:11 +0800
"Figo.zhang" <figo1802@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> clean up comment. prepare cgroup return 0 or -ENOMEN, others return -EAGAIN.
> avoid conflict meanings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
> ---
> mm/migrate.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 34132f8..d65b351 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -647,7 +647,6 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
>  		if (unlikely(split_huge_page(page)))
>  			goto move_newpage;
>  
> -	/* prepare cgroup just returns 0 or -ENOMEM */
>  	rc = -EAGAIN;
>  
>  	if (!trylock_page(page)) {
> @@ -687,7 +686,7 @@ static int unmap_and_move(new_page_t get_new_page, unsigned long private,
>  		goto unlock;
>  	}
>  
> -	/* charge against new page */
> +	/* charge against new page, return 0 or -ENOMEM */
>  	charge = mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(page, newpage, &mem, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (charge == -ENOMEM) {
>  		rc = -ENOMEM;

Well it's still pretty confusing - the function can also return -EAGAIN
and -EBUSY, at least.

It would be better to remove this random sprinkle of commentlets and to
properly document unmap_and_move()'s interface in the usual fashion, in
its leading comment block.

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