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authorYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>2022-05-19 14:08:49 -0700
committerakpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-05-19 14:08:49 -0700
commitd2081b2bf8195b8239c67fdd61518e077da7cbec (patch)
treea3e8694b4d3021942841883f7bd5123f318b5f95 /kernel/fork.c
parent78d12c19e02d8151b1c82228ae6bb10f174a68e2 (diff)
mm: khugepaged: make khugepaged_enter() void function
The most callers of khugepaged_enter() don't care about the return value. Only dup_mmap(), anonymous THP page fault and MADV_HUGEPAGE handle the error by returning -ENOMEM. Actually it is not harmful for them to ignore the error case either. It also sounds overkilling to fail fork() and page fault early due to khugepaged_enter() error, and MADV_HUGEPAGE does set VM_HUGEPAGE flag regardless of the error. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220510203222.24246-6-shy828301@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastmil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9796897560ab..0d13baf86650 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -612,9 +612,7 @@ static __latent_entropy int dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm,
retval = ksm_fork(mm, oldmm);
if (retval)
goto out;
- retval = khugepaged_fork(mm, oldmm);
- if (retval)
- goto out;
+ khugepaged_fork(mm, oldmm);
prev = NULL;
for (mpnt = oldmm->mmap; mpnt; mpnt = mpnt->vm_next) {