From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf0-f71.google.com (mail-lf0-f71.google.com [209.85.215.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587A46B06DF for ; Sat, 12 May 2018 02:25:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lf0-f71.google.com with SMTP id o16-v6so2573669lff.13 for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 23:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-sor-f41.google.com (mail-sor-f41.google.com. [209.85.220.41]) by mx.google.com with SMTPS id g84-v6sor1160665lfl.8.2018.05.11.23.25.39 for (Google Transport Security); Fri, 11 May 2018 23:25:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20180512061712.GA26660@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC> From: Souptick Joarder Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 11:55:38 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm: Change return type to vm_fault_t Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Hugh Dickins , Dan Williams , David Rientjes , mike.kravetz@oracle.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Linux-MM , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 11:47 +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote: >> Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler >> in struct vm_operations_struct. 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. > > trivia: > >> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h > [] >> @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ struct vm_special_mapping { >> * If non-NULL, then this is called to resolve page faults >> * on the special mapping. If used, .pages is not checked. >> */ >> - int (*fault)(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm, >> + vm_fault_t (*fault)(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm, >> struct vm_area_struct *vma, >> struct vm_fault *vmf); > > > It'd be nicer to realign the 2nd and 3rd arguments > on the subsequent lines. > > vm_fault_t (*fault)(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm, > struct vm_area_struct *vma, > struct vm_fault *vmf); > Just now posted v3. Do you want me to send v4 again with realignment ?