Re: [PATCH v2] mm: huge_memory: Change return type to vm_fault_t

From: Souptick Joarder
Date: Fri Apr 27 2018 - 01:49:16 EST


On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 12:39 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, 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.
>>
>> Commit 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v2: Updated the change log
>>
>> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 5 +++--
>> mm/huge_memory.c | 4 ++--
>> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>> index a8a1262..d3bbf6b 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>> #define _LINUX_HUGE_MM_H
>>
>> #include <linux/sched/coredump.h>
>> +#include <linux/mm_types.h>
>>
>> #include <linux/fs.h> /* only for vma_is_dax() */
>>
>> @@ -46,9 +47,9 @@ extern bool move_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long old_addr,
>> extern int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
>> unsigned long addr, pgprot_t newprot,
>> int prot_numa);
>> -int vmf_insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> +vm_fault_t vmf_insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> pmd_t *pmd, pfn_t pfn, bool write);
>> -int vmf_insert_pfn_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> +vm_fault_t vmf_insert_pfn_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> pud_t *pud, pfn_t pfn, bool write);
>> enum transparent_hugepage_flag {
>> TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_FLAG,
>> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
>> index 87ab9b8..1fe4705 100644
>> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
>> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
>> @@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ static void insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> spin_unlock(ptl);
>> }
>>
>> -int vmf_insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> +vm_fault_t vmf_insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> pmd_t *pmd, pfn_t pfn, bool write)
>> {
>> pgprot_t pgprot = vma->vm_page_prot;
>> @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ static void insert_pfn_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> spin_unlock(ptl);
>> }
>>
>> -int vmf_insert_pfn_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> +vm_fault_t vmf_insert_pfn_pud(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> pud_t *pud, pfn_t pfn, bool write)
>> {
>> pgprot_t pgprot = vma->vm_page_prot;
>
> This isn't very useful unless functions that return the return value of
> these functions, __dev_dax_{pmd,pud}_fault(), recast it as an int.
> __dev_dax_pte_fault() would do the same thing, so it should logically also
> be vm_fault_t, so then you would convert dev_dax_huge_fault() and
> dev_dax_fault() as well in the same patch.

yes, the return value of _dev_dax_{pmd,pud,pte}_fault(), dev_dax_huge_fault(),
dev_dax_fault() is already changed in a separate patch which was reviewed
by Matthew and Ross. Other patch was posted in linux-nvdimm mailing list.