From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>,
Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
kemi.wang@intel.com, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nilfs <linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: Convert return type int to vm_fault_t
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 17:28:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180903172843.9bf312c738ce8a434dd9c242@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFqt6zZckYhLJuJr9TSw2KOZrt6qD25xDctuvbKfm0jyBoPycA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 11:33:48 +0530 Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Return type of block_page_mkwrite_return() is also changed
> > > to use new vm_fault_t type.
> > > --- a/fs/nilfs2/file.c
> > > +++ b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
> > > @@ -51,13 +51,14 @@ int nilfs_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
> > > return err;
> > > }
> > >
> > > -static int nilfs_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> > > +static vm_fault_t nilfs_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> >
> > nilfs_page_mkwrite() already has return type vm_fault_t in Linus's
> > kernel, due to the now-merged
> > fs-nilfs2-adding-new-return-type-vm_fault_t.patch. Looks like a simple
> > fix.
> >
> > I'm beginning to feel vm_fault_t exhaustion. Please remind me what
> > benefit we're going to get out of all this churn?
>
> The problem and benefit of these changes was discussed under this mail
> thread when the first vm_fault_t patch was posted.
>
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=152054772413234&w=4
That tells us about the merging plans. But not much about what actual
benefit anyone gets from this.
This?
: There's some interesting patterns and commonalities between drivers
: (not to mention a few outright bugs) that we've noticed, and this'll be
: a good time to clean them up.
That is terribly vague.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-04 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-30 17:25 [PATCH v2] fs: Convert return type int to vm_fault_t Souptick Joarder
2018-08-30 23:33 ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-31 6:03 ` Souptick Joarder
2018-09-04 0:28 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-09-04 2:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-09-03 2:13 ` Ryusuke Konishi
2018-09-03 11:58 ` Souptick Joarder
2018-08-30 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-31 16:58 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-01 16:21 ` Souptick Joarder
2018-09-03 4:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
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