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| author | Jason Liu <r64343@freescale.com> | 2013-01-11 14:31:47 -0800 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> | 2013-02-06 04:33:31 +0000 |
| commit | 2c7ff1aa06ba37b36e07d4b47c55d7431ec9dff9 (patch) | |
| tree | 0635ab483b233fba3dcbdc66fffdaaa7f348dc8f /mm | |
| parent | 61c1cdc4b8f0789e93bfb835e69b351412762af1 (diff) | |
mm: compaction: fix echo 1 > compact_memory return error issue
commit 7964c06d66c76507d8b6b662bffea770c29ef0ce upstream.
when run the folloing command under shell, it will return error
sh/$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
sh/$ sh: write error: Bad address
After strace, I found the following log:
...
write(1, "1\n", 2) = 3
write(1, "", 4294967295) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
write(2, "echo: write error: Bad address\n", 31echo: write error: Bad address
) = 31
This tells system return 3(COMPACT_COMPLETE) after write data to
compact_memory.
The fix is to make the system just return 0 instead 3(COMPACT_COMPLETE)
from sysctl_compaction_handler after compaction_nodes finished.
Signed-off-by: Jason Liu <r64343@freescale.com>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/compaction.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 46973fb5ea7f..5f8ec827ce9c 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -714,14 +714,12 @@ static int compact_node(int nid) } /* Compact all nodes in the system */ -static int compact_nodes(void) +static void compact_nodes(void) { int nid; for_each_online_node(nid) compact_node(nid); - - return COMPACT_COMPLETE; } /* The written value is actually unused, all memory is compacted */ @@ -732,7 +730,7 @@ int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { if (write) - return compact_nodes(); + compact_nodes(); return 0; } |