PATCH 2.4.21 fix: kswapd can fail starting

Walter Harms (Walter.Harms@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE)
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:24:18 +0200 (MEST)

Hi list,
when i was looking for non checked returns of kernel_thread() i noticed
that vmscan.c never checks. This patch changes that. Note that
kswapd_init() can fail. I have no idea what to do then perhaps somebody
should take a look at that also ?

walter

--- mm/vmscan.c.org 2003-06-25 21:49:45.000000000 +0200
+++ mm/vmscan.c 2003-06-25 21:45:39.000000000 +0200
@@ -768,7 +768,8 @@
{
printk("Starting kswapd\n");
swap_setup();
- kernel_thread(kswapd, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGNAL);
+ if (kernel_thread(kswapd, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | CLONE_SIGNAL)<0)
+ return 1;
return 0;
}

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