hi, all Recently, I found an error in move_pages syscall: depending on move_pages(2), when page is not present, it should fail with ENOENT, in fact, it's ok without any errno. the following reproducer can easily reproduce the issue, suggest you get more details by strace. inside reproducer, I try to move a non-exist page from node 1 to node 0. I have tested it on the latest kernel 3.4-rc5 with 2 and 4 numa nodes. [zliu@ZhoupingLiu ~]$ gcc -o reproducer reproducer.c -lnuma [zliu@ZhoupingLiu ~]$ ./reproducer from_node is 1, to_node is 0 ERROR: move_pages expected FAIL. I'm not in mail list, please CC me. /* * Copyright (C) 2012 Red Hat, Inc. * * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. See * the COPYING file in the top-level directory. * * Compiled: gcc -o reproducer reproducer.c -lnuma * Description: * it's designed to check move_pages syscall, when * page is not present, it should fail with ENOENT. */ #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #include <numa.h> #include <numaif.h> #define TEST_PAGES 4 int main(int argc, char **argv) { void *pages[TEST_PAGES]; int onepage; int nodes[TEST_PAGES]; int status, ret; int i, from_node = 1, to_node = 0; onepage = getpagesize(); for (i = 0; i < TEST_PAGES - 1; i++) { pages[i] = numa_alloc_onnode(onepage, from_node); nodes[i] = to_node; } nodes[TEST_PAGES - 1] = to_node; /* * the follow page is not available, also not aligned, * depend on move_pages(2), it can't be moved, and should * return ENOENT errno. */ pages[TEST_PAGES - 1] = pages[TEST_PAGES - 2] - onepage * 4 + 1; printf("from_node is %u, to_node is %u\n", from_node, to_node); ret = move_pages(0, TEST_PAGES, pages, nodes, &status, MPOL_MF_MOVE); if (ret == -1) { if (errno != ENOENT) perror("move_pages expected ENOENT errno, but it's"); else printf("Succeed\n"); } else { printf("ERROR: move_pages expected FAIL.\n"); } for (i = 0; i < TEST_PAGES; i++) numa_free(pages[i], onepage); return 0; } -- Thanks, Zhouping -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>