misc: ocxl: Change return type for fault handler

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jul 11 23:24:07 AEST 2018


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 at gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a545cf032d11437ed86e62f00d4991

cheers


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