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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index eceac9f..12e8627 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1299,6 +1299,9 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
* hope that some of these pages can be written. But if the allocating task
* holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not work, and the
* allocation attempt will fail.
+ *
+ * returns: 0, if no pages reclaimed
+ * else, the number of pages reclaimed
*/
static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
struct scan_control *sc)
@@ -1347,7 +1350,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
}
total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
if (nr_reclaimed >= sc->swap_cluster_max) {
- ret = 1;
+ ret = nr_reclaimed;
goto out;
}
@@ -1370,7 +1373,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
}
/* top priority shrink_caches still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
if (!sc->all_unreclaimable && scan_global_lru(sc))
- ret = 1;
+ ret = nr_reclaimed;
out:
/*
* Now that we've scanned all the zones at this priority level, note
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