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[v2,5/5] mm: memory-failure: move return value documentation to function declaration

Message ID 20250217063335.22257-6-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling | expand

Commit Message

Shuai Xue Feb. 17, 2025, 6:33 a.m. UTC 
Part of return value comments for memory_failure() were originally
documented at the call site. Move those comments to the function
declaration to improve code readability and to provide developers with
immediate access to function usage and return information.

Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c |  7 -------
 mm/memory-failure.c            | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Comments

Miaohe Lin Feb. 19, 2025, 6:31 a.m. UTC | #1 
On 2025/2/17 14:33, Shuai Xue wrote:
> Part of return value comments for memory_failure() were originally
> documented at the call site. Move those comments to the function
> declaration to improve code readability and to provide developers with
> immediate access to function usage and return information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>

LGTM.

Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Thanks.
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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
index c1b945dbccdf..c81695f320bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
@@ -1403,13 +1403,6 @@  static void kill_me_maybe(struct callback_head *cb)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * -EHWPOISON from memory_failure() means that it already sent SIGBUS
-	 * to the current process with the proper error info,
-	 * -EOPNOTSUPP means hwpoison_filter() filtered the error event,
-	 *
-	 * In both cases, no further processing is required.
-	 */
 	if (ret == -EHWPOISON || ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
 		return;
 
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index b037952565be..8649849bcdb4 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2216,9 +2216,13 @@  static void kill_procs_now(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn, int flags,
  * Must run in process context (e.g. a work queue) with interrupts
  * enabled and no spinlocks held.
  *
- * Return: 0 for successfully handled the memory error,
- *         -EOPNOTSUPP for hwpoison_filter() filtered the error event,
- *         < 0(except -EOPNOTSUPP) on failure.
+ * Return:
+ *   0             - success,
+ *   -ENXIO        - memory not managed by the kernel
+ *   -EOPNOTSUPP   - hwpoison_filter() filtered the error event,
+ *   -EHWPOISON    - the page was already poisoned, potentially
+ *                   kill process,
+ *   other negative values - failure.
  */
 int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 {