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 <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 @@
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;
}