From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>,
Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Mueller <mimu@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/42] mm:gup/writeback: add callbacks for inaccessible pages
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:31:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7050290-316d-f938-6ccb-690b2e7ef0e3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200218213548.GI28156@linux.intel.com>
On 18.02.20 22:35, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 05:15:57PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 18.02.20 17:02, Will Deacon wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 07:46:10AM -0800, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 09:27:20AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>> On 17.02.20 12:10, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>>>> So yes, if everything is setup properly this should not fail in real life
>>>>>> and only we have a kernel (or firmware) bug.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Then, without feedback from other possible users, this should be a void
>>>>> function. So either introduce error handling or convert it to a void for
>>>>> now (and add e.g., BUG_ON and a comment inside the s390x implementation).
>>>>
>>>> My preference would also be for a void function (versus ignoring an int
>>>> return).
>>>
>>> The gup code could certainly handle the error value, although the writeback
>>> is a lot less clear (so a BUG_ON() would seem to be sufficient for now).
>>
>> Sean, David. Can we agree on merging patch 39?
>
> I'm a-ok with adding error checking, ignoring the return value is the only
> option I don't like :-)
Same over here :)
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-19 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-14 22:26 [PATCH v2 00/42] KVM: s390: Add support for protected VMs Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-14 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 01/42] mm:gup/writeback: add callbacks for inaccessible pages Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-17 9:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-17 11:10 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-18 8:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-18 15:46 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-18 16:02 ` Will Deacon
2020-02-18 16:15 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-18 21:35 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-19 8:31 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2020-02-14 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 05/42] s390/mm: provide memory management functions for protected KVM guests Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-17 10:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-17 11:28 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-17 12:07 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-14 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 06/42] s390/mm: add (non)secure page access exceptions handlers Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-14 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 39/42] example for future extension: mm:gup/writeback: add callbacks for inaccessible pages: error cases Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-18 16:25 ` Will Deacon
2020-02-18 16:30 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-18 16:33 ` Will Deacon
2020-02-14 22:26 ` [PATCH v2 40/42] example for future extension: mm:gup/writeback: add callbacks for inaccessible pages: source indication Christian Borntraeger
2020-02-17 14:15 ` Ulrich Weigand
2020-02-17 14:38 ` Christian Borntraeger
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