Re: [PATCH v6 22/24] mm: Speculative page fault handler return VMA

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 03:47:51PM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> On 13/01/2018 05:23, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Of course, we don't need to change them all.  Try this:
> 
> That would be good candidate for a clean up but I'm not sure this should be
> part of this already too long series.
> 
> If you don't mind, unless a global agreement is stated on that, I'd prefer
> to postpone such a change once the initial series is accepted.

Actually, I think this can go in first, independently of the speculative
fault series.  It's a win in memory savings, and probably shaves a
cycle or two off the fault handler due to less argument marshalling in
the call-stack.