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mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru()
Patch series "Change the return value for page isolation functions", v3. Now the page isolation functions did not return a boolean to indicate success or not, instead it will return a negative error when failed to isolate a page. So below code used in most places seem a boolean success/failure thing, which can confuse people whether the isolation is successful. if (folio_isolate_lru(folio)) continue; Moreover the page isolation functions only return 0 or -EBUSY, and most users did not care about the negative error except for few users, thus we can convert all page isolation functions to return a boolean value, which can remove the confusion to make code more clear. No functional changes intended in this patch series. This patch (of 4): Now the folio_isolate_lru() did not return a boolean value to indicate isolation success or not, however below code checking the return value can make people think that it was a boolean success/failure thing, which makes people easy to make mistakes (see the fix patch[1]). if (folio_isolate_lru(folio)) continue; Thus it's better to check the negative error value expilictly returned by folio_isolate_lru(), which makes code more clear per Linus's suggestion[2]. Moreover Matthew suggested we can convert the isolation functions to return a boolean[3], since most users did not care about the negative error value, and can also remove the confusing of checking return value. So this patch converts the folio_isolate_lru() to return a boolean value, which means return 'true' to indicate the folio isolation is successful, and 'false' means a failure to isolation. Meanwhile changing all users' logic of checking the isolation state. No functional changes intended. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/T/#u [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiBrY+O-4=2mrbVyxR+hOqfdJ=Do6xoucfJ9_5az01L4Q@mail.gmail.com/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a4e3679ed4196168efadf7ea36c038f2f7d5aa9.1676424378.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Miaohe Lin <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]> Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]> Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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