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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2011-10-31 17:08:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-10-31 17:30:49 -0700
commit09f363c7363eb10cfb4b82094bd7064e5608258b (patch)
tree4b1890150cf7f7a2339694ea97efa6c45b8705a1 /include/linux
parent20c8c62891a346e09c8d26de41ce78bd7a76c5b0 (diff)
vmscan: fix shrinker callback bug in fs/super.c
The callback must not return -1 when nr_to_scan is zero. Fix the bug in fs/super.c and add this requirement to the callback specification. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/shrinker.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
index 790651b4e5b..a83833a1f7a 100644
--- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ struct shrink_control {
* 'nr_to_scan' entries and attempt to free them up. It should return
* the number of objects which remain in the cache. If it returns -1, it means
* it cannot do any scanning at this time (eg. there is a risk of deadlock).
+ * The callback must not return -1 if nr_to_scan is zero.
*
* The 'gfpmask' refers to the allocation we are currently trying to
* fulfil.