From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: no more EINVAL from /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh EINVAL was good for drawing the refresher's attention to a warning in dmesg, but became very tiresome when running test suites scripted with "set -e": an underflow from a bug in one feature would cause unrelated tests much later to fail, just because their /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh touch failed with that error. Stop doing that. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.2102251510410.13363@eggly.anvils Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmstat.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmstat.c~mm-no-more-einval-from-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh +++ a/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1862,7 +1862,6 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *tab if (val < 0) { pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n", __func__, zone_stat_name(i), val); - err = -EINVAL; } } #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA @@ -1871,7 +1870,6 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *tab if (val < 0) { pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n", __func__, numa_stat_name(i), val); - err = -EINVAL; } } #endif @@ -1880,11 +1878,8 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *tab if (val < 0) { pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n", __func__, node_stat_name(i), val); - err = -EINVAL; } } - if (err) - return err; if (write) *ppos += *lenp; else _
