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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2014-01-21 15:51:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-21 16:19:49 -0800
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mm/migrate: add comment about permanent failure path
Let's add a comment about where the failed page goes to, which makes code more readable. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/migrate.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index f9e16350d09c..626ca3c5d07b 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1125,7 +1125,12 @@ int migrate_pages(struct list_head *from, new_page_t get_new_page,
nr_succeeded++;
break;
default:
- /* Permanent failure */
+ /*
+ * Permanent failure (-EBUSY, -ENOSYS, etc.):
+ * unlike -EAGAIN case, the failed page is
+ * removed from migration page list and not
+ * retried in the next outer loop.
+ */
nr_failed++;
break;
}