From patchwork Thu Jan 24 03:27:05 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski X-Patchwork-Id: 215682 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from chlorine.canonical.com (chlorine.canonical.com [91.189.94.204]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907852C0096 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:43:39 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chlorine.canonical.com) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyjYz-00079F-0m; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:43:25 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyDWi-0003MV-PH for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:30:57 +0000 Received: from 189.58.28.114.dynamic.adsl.gvt.net.br ([189.58.28.114] helo=canonical.com) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TyDWg-0007Io-VO; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:30:55 +0000 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 53/74] mm: compaction: fix echo 1 > compact_memory return error issue Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:27:05 -0200 Message-Id: <1358998046-613-54-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.5 In-Reply-To: <1358998046-613-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> References: <1358998046-613-1-git-send-email-herton.krzesinski@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:43:23 +0000 Cc: Rik van Riel , Minchan Kim , Jason Liu , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.5.7.4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jason Liu 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 Suggested-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski --- mm/compaction.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 2f42d95..cf955bb 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ static int compact_node(int nid) } /* Compact all nodes in the system */ -static int compact_nodes(void) +static void compact_nodes(void) { int nid; @@ -852,8 +852,6 @@ static int compact_nodes(void) for_each_online_node(nid) compact_node(nid); - - return COMPACT_COMPLETE; } /* The written value is actually unused, all memory is compacted */ @@ -864,7 +862,7 @@ 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; }