From: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
To: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] fs: dax: Adding new return type vm_fault_t
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:54:53 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFqt6zZti0oY7C-pU0LhsHtctqeWBkikH6Pb0wfBZSigHNMUwA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180426195831.GA27127@linux.intel.com>
> I noticed that we have the following status translation now in 4 places in 2
> files:
>
> if (err == -ENOMEM)
> return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> if (err < 0 && err != -EBUSY)
> return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
>
>
> This happens in vmf_insert_mixed_mkwrite(), vmf_insert_page(),
> vmf_insert_mixed() and vmf_insert_pfn().
>
> I think it'd be a good idea to consolidate this translation into an inline
> helper, in the spirit of dax_fault_return(). This will ensure that if/when we
> start changing this status translation, we won't accidentally miss some of the
> places which would make them get out of sync. No need to fold this into this
> patch - it should be a separate change.
Sure, I will send this as a separate patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-27 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-24 16:47 [PATCH v6] fs: dax: Adding new return type vm_fault_t Souptick Joarder
2018-04-26 19:58 ` Ross Zwisler
2018-04-27 5:24 ` Souptick Joarder [this message]
2018-04-27 11:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
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