On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 03:09:50 -0500 (EST) Jan Stancek <jstan...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Replace ENOTSUPP with EOPNOTSUPP. If hugepages are not supported, > > > this value is propagated to userspace. EOPNOTSUPP is part of uapi > > > and is widely supported by libc libraries. > > > > hm, what is the actual user-visible effect of this change? Does it fix > > some misbehaviour? > > > > It gives nicer message to user, rather than: > # cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages > cat: /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: Unknown error 524 > > And also LTP's proc01 test was failing because this ret code (524) > was unexpected: > proc01 1 TFAIL : proc01.c:396: read failed: > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages: errno=???(524): Unknown error 524 > proc01 2 TFAIL : proc01.c:396: read failed: > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages_mempolicy: errno=???(524): Unknown error 524 > proc01 3 TFAIL : proc01.c:396: read failed: > /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages: errno=???(524): Unknown error 524 > Ah, OK, thanks. "Unknown error 524" is rather rude. I'll queue this for 4.5.
