On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 03:12:10PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> EINVAL was good for drawing the refresher's attention to a warning in
> dmesg, but became very tiresome when running test suites scripted with
> "set -e": an underflow from a bug in one feature would cause unrelated
> tests much later to fail, just because their /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh
> touch failed with that error. Stop doing that.

Totally agree!

> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>

> ---
> 
>  mm/vmstat.c |    5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> --- vmstat1/mm/vmstat.c       2021-02-25 11:50:36.000000000 -0800
> +++ vmstat2/mm/vmstat.c       2021-02-25 11:56:18.000000000 -0800
> @@ -1844,7 +1844,6 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *tab
>               if (val < 0) {
>                       pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n",
>                               __func__, zone_stat_name(i), val);
> -                     err = -EINVAL;
>               }
>       }
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> @@ -1853,7 +1852,6 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *tab
>               if (val < 0) {
>                       pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n",
>                               __func__, numa_stat_name(i), val);
> -                     err = -EINVAL;
>               }
>       }
>  #endif
> @@ -1862,11 +1860,8 @@ int vmstat_refresh(struct ctl_table *tab
>               if (val < 0) {
>                       pr_warn("%s: %s %ld\n",
>                               __func__, node_stat_name(i), val);
> -                     err = -EINVAL;
>               }
>       }
> -     if (err)
> -             return err;
>       if (write)
>               *ppos += *lenp;
>       else

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