mm: compaction: fix echo 1 > compact_memory return error issue
authorJason Liu <r64343@freescale.com>
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:31:47 +0000 (14:31 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:54:54 +0000 (14:54 -0800)
commit7964c06d66c76507d8b6b662bffea770c29ef0ce
treef723b15a16d13a17b252df12579fe9956d554a4a
parentc0232ae861df679092c15960b6cd9f589d9b7177
mm: compaction: fix echo 1 > compact_memory return error issue

when run the folloing command under shell, it will return error

  sh/$ echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
  sh/$ sh: write error: Bad address

After strace, I found the following log:

  ...
  write(1, "1\n", 2)               = 3
  write(1, "", 4294967295)         = -1 EFAULT (Bad address)
  write(2, "echo: write error: Bad address\n", 31echo: write error: Bad address
  ) = 31

This tells system return 3(COMPACT_COMPLETE) after write data to
compact_memory.

The fix is to make the system just return 0 instead 3(COMPACT_COMPLETE)
from sysctl_compaction_handler after compaction_nodes finished.

Signed-off-by: Jason Liu <r64343@freescale.com>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/compaction.c