Re: [PATCH v2] x86/vdso: Change return type to vm_fault_t for fault handlers

[Souptick Joarder]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:27:37PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>> Use new return type vm_fault_t for both fault handler
>> vdso_fault() and vvar_fault(). Previously vm_insert_pfn()
>> returns err which has to mapped into VM_FAULT_* type.
>> The new function vmf_insert_pfn() will replace this
>> inefficiency by returning correct VM_FAULT_* type.
>
>> @@ -105,10 +105,10 @@ static int vvar_fault(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm,
>>        * the page past the end of the vvar mapping.
>>        */
>>       if (sym_offset == 0)
>> -             return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
>> +             return ret;
>>
>>       if (sym_offset == image->sym_vvar_page) {
>> -             ret = vm_insert_pfn(vma, vmf->address,
>> +             ret = vmf_insert_pfn(vma, vmf->address,
>>                                   __pa_symbol(&__vvar_page) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
>>       } else if (sym_offset == image->sym_pvclock_page) {
>>               struct pvclock_vsyscall_time_info *pvti =
>> @@ -124,14 +124,11 @@ static int vvar_fault(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm,
>
> Haven't you missed converting vm_insert_pfn_prot() at line 117?
> Did you test-compile this?
>

I left it intentionally in this patch. When we will be replacing
vm_insert_foo() with new API vmf_insert_foo(), vm_insert_pfn_prot
need to be changed to return vm_fault_t type.

I will change the return type of vm_insert_pfn_prot() in that patch.