Re: [PATCH -mm] mm, compaction: properly signal and act upon lock and need_sched() contention - fix

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On Mon, 2 Jun 2014, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

> compact_should_abort() returns true instead of false and vice versa
> due to changes between v1 and v2 of the patch. This makes both async
> and sync compaction abort with high probability, and has been reported
> to cause e.g. soft lockups on some ARM boards, or drivers calling
> dma_alloc_coherent() fail to probe with CMA enabled on different boards.
> 
> This patch fixes the return value to match comments and callers expecations.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>

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