Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2019-12-30

[PATCH] move_pages.2: remove ENOENT from the list of possible return values

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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Date: 2019-12-19 05:13:53
Also in: linux-man, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

1 review trailer.

Linux kernel commit e78bbfa82624 ("mm: stop returning -ENOENT from
sys_move_pages() if nothing got migrated") had the effect of *never*
returning -ENOENT, in any situation. So we need to update the man page
to reflect that ENOENT is not a possible return value.

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Brice Goglin <redacted>
Cc: Yang Shi <redacted>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <redacted>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
---

Hi,

This fix for the man page was ACK'd by Michal, here:

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218101711.GB21485@dhcp22.suse.cz (local)

thanks,
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

 man2/move_pages.2 | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/move_pages.2 b/man2/move_pages.2
index 2d96468fa..1bf1053f2 100644
--- a/man2/move_pages.2
+++ b/man2/move_pages.2
@@ -191,12 +191,6 @@ was specified or an attempt was made to migrate pages of a kernel thread.
 .B ENODEV
 One of the target nodes is not online.
 .TP
-.B ENOENT
-No pages were found that require moving.
-All pages are either already
-on the target node, not present, had an invalid address or could not be
-moved because they were mapped by multiple processes.
-.TP
 .B EPERM
 The caller specified
 .B MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL
-- 
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