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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2015-11-05 18:50:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-05 19:34:48 -0800
commit6071ca5201066f4b2a61cfb693dd186d6bc6e9f3 (patch)
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mm: page_counter: let page_counter_try_charge() return bool
page_counter_try_charge() currently returns 0 on success and -ENOMEM on failure, which is surprising behavior given the function name. Make it follow the expected pattern of try_stuff() functions that return a boolean true to indicate success, or false for failure. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page_counter.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/page_counter.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page_counter.h b/include/linux/page_counter.h
index 17fa4f8de3a6..7e62920a3a94 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_counter.h
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ static inline unsigned long page_counter_read(struct page_counter *counter)
void page_counter_cancel(struct page_counter *counter, unsigned long nr_pages);
void page_counter_charge(struct page_counter *counter, unsigned long nr_pages);
-int page_counter_try_charge(struct page_counter *counter,
- unsigned long nr_pages,
- struct page_counter **fail);
+bool page_counter_try_charge(struct page_counter *counter,
+ unsigned long nr_pages,
+ struct page_counter **fail);
void page_counter_uncharge(struct page_counter *counter, unsigned long nr_pages);
int page_counter_limit(struct page_counter *counter, unsigned long limit);
int page_counter_memparse(const char *buf, const char *max,