From 354a3363363724c21ea2e4b28370e27983c2452e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Naoya Horiguchi Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:51:14 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Acked-by: Rafael Aquini Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zhang Yanfei Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/migrate.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/migrate.c') 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b