From 7f60ca81f4db0e296f4ce083e355ba6a6908efda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Liu Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:13:07 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Suggested-by: David Rientjes Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/compaction.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index c4bc5acf865d..bf6bc32cbd51 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -715,14 +715,12 @@ static int compact_node(int nid) } /* Compact all nodes in the system */ -static int compact_nodes(void) +static void compact_nodes(void) { int nid; for_each_online_node(nid) compact_node(nid); - - return COMPACT_COMPLETE; } /* The written value is actually unused, all memory is compacted */ @@ -733,7 +731,7 @@ int sysctl_compaction_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write, void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos) { if (write) - return compact_nodes(); + compact_nodes(); return 0; } -- 2.39.5