1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index eceac9f9032f..12e8627c9747 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1299,6 +1299,9 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
  * hope that some of these pages can be written.  But if the allocating task
  * holds filesystem locks which prevent writeout this might not work, and the
  * allocation attempt will fail.
+ *
+ * returns:     0, if no pages reclaimed
+ *              else, the number of pages reclaimed
  */
 static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
                                         struct scan_control *sc)
@@ -1347,7 +1350,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
                 }
                 total_scanned += sc->nr_scanned;
                 if (nr_reclaimed >= sc->swap_cluster_max) {
-                        ret = 1;
+                        ret = nr_reclaimed;
                         goto out;
                 }
 
@@ -1370,7 +1373,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
         }
         /* top priority shrink_caches still had more to do? don't OOM, then */
         if (!sc->all_unreclaimable && scan_global_lru(sc))
-                ret = 1;
+                ret = nr_reclaimed;
 out:
         /*
          * Now that we've scanned all the zones at this priority level, note