Re: [PATCH] move_pages.2: not return ENOENT if the page are already on the target nodes

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On 12/5/19 5:34 PM, Yang Shi wrote:
Since commit e78bbfa82624 ("mm: stop returning -ENOENT
from sys_move_pages() if nothing got migrated"), move_pages doesn't
return -ENOENT anymore if the pages are already on the target nodes, but
this change is never reflected in manpage.

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  man2/move_pages.2 | 5 ++---
  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/move_pages.2 b/man2/move_pages.2
index 2d96468..2a2f3cd 100644
--- a/man2/move_pages.2
+++ b/man2/move_pages.2
@@ -192,9 +192,8 @@ was specified or an attempt was made to migrate pages of a kernel thread.
  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
+No pages were found.
+All pages are either not present, had an invalid address or could not be
  moved because they were mapped by multiple processes.
  .TP
  .B EPERM


whoa, hold on. If I'm reading through the various error paths correctly, then this
code is *never* going to return ENOENT for the whole function. It can fill in that
value per-page, in the status array, but that's all. Did I get that right?

If so, we need to redo this part of the man page.


thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA



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