On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 03:27:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:27:57 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Currently the return value of memory_failure() is not passed to userspace, which > > is inconvenient for test programs that want to know the result of error handling. > > So let's return it to the caller as we already do in MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE case. > > I updated this to mention that it's for madvise(MADV_HWPOISON): > > : Currently the return value of memory_failure() is not passed to userspace > : when madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) is used. This is inconvenient for test > : programs that want to know the result of error handling. So let's return > : it to the caller as we already do in the MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE case. Thank you. > btw, MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE and MADV_HWPOISON are not documented in that > comment block over sys_madvise(). Fixy please? You might want to > check that no other MADV_foo values have been omitted. OK, I posted the fix patch just now, which also updates about some other madvices. Thanks, Naoya Horiguchi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href