Re: misc: ocxl: Change return type for fault handler

From: Souptick Joarder
Date: Fri Jul 13 2018 - 08:57:15 EST


On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 6:54 PM, Michael Ellerman
<patch-notifications@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-06-11 at 20:29:04 UTC, Souptick Joarder wrote:
>> Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler. For
>> now, this is just documenting that the function returns
>> a VM_FAULT value rather than an errno. Once all instances
>> are converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type.
>>
>> Ref-> commit 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t")
>>
>> There is an existing bug when vm_insert_pfn() can return
>> ENOMEM which was ignored and VM_FAULT_NOPAGE returned as
>> default. The new inline vmf_insert_pfn() has removed
>> this inefficiency by returning correct vm_fault_ type.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied to powerpc next, thanks.
>
> https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a545cf032d11437ed86e62f00d4991
>
> cheers

Thanks :)