[PATCH v2] powerpc: platform: cell: spufs: Change return type to vm_fault_t

Souptick Joarder jrdr.linux at gmail.com
Wed May 16 14:36:24 AEST 2018


On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 8:35 PM, Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 3:04 AM, Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:02:39PM +0530, 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.
>>>
>>> Reference id -> 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to
>>> vm_fault_t")
>>>
>>> We are fixing a minor bug, that the error from vm_insert_
>>> pfn() was being ignored and the effect of this is likely
>>> to be only felt in OOM situations.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux at gmail.com>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox at microsoft.com>
>
> Any further comment on this patch ?

If no further comment, we would like to get this patch in queue
for 4.18.


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