From d5dc0ad928fb9e972001e552597fd0b794863f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gavin Shan Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:29:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: fix error number for failed kthread Fix the return value while failing to create the kswapd kernel thread. Also, the error message is prioritized as KERN_ERR. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index f6fdae7..d16bf5a 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -3126,9 +3126,9 @@ int kswapd_run(int nid) if (IS_ERR(pgdat->kswapd)) { /* failure at boot is fatal */ BUG_ON(system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING); - printk("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n",nid); pgdat->kswapd = NULL; - ret = -1; + pr_err("Failed to start kswapd on node %d\n", nid); + ret = PTR_ERR(pgdat->kswapd); } return ret; } -- 2.7.4