From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
dhillf@gmail.com, mhocko@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V7 02/14] hugetlbfs: don't use ERR_PTR with VM_FAULT* values
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 23:50:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205302331380.25774@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120531054533.GE24855@skywalker.linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > Yeah, but is there a reason for using VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE_MASK since
> > that's the only VM_FAULT_* value that is greater than MAX_ERRNO? The rest
> > of your patch set doesn't require this, so I think this change should just
> > be dropped. (And PTR_ERR() still returns long, this wasn't fixed from my
> > original review.)
> >
>
> The changes was done as per Andrew's request so that we don't have such hidden
> dependencies on the values of VM_FAULT_*. Yes it can be a seperate patch from
> the patchset. I have changed int to long as per your review.
>
I think it confuscates the code, can't we just add something like
BUILD_BUG_ON() to ensure that PTR_ERR() never uses values that are outside
the bounds of MAX_ERRNO so we'll catch these at compile time if
mm/hugetlb.c or anything else is ever extended to use such values?
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 14:38 [PATCH -V7 00/14] hugetlb: Add HugeTLB controller to control HugeTLB allocation Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 01/14] hugetlb: rename max_hstate to hugetlb_max_hstate Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 0:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-31 5:47 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 0:55 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 02/14] hugetlbfs: don't use ERR_PTR with VM_FAULT* values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 0:54 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-31 1:02 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31 5:45 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 6:50 ` David Rientjes [this message]
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 03/14] hugetlbfs: add an inline helper for finding hstate index Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 1:05 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 04/14] hugetlb: use mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 1:56 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31 5:35 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 05/14] hugetlb: avoid taking i_mmap_mutex in unmap_single_vma() for hugetlb Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 1:57 ` David Rientjes
2012-05-31 5:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 06/14] hugetlb: simplify migrate_huge_page() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 07/14] mm/page_cgroup: Make page_cgroup point to the cgroup rather than the mem_cgroup Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-05 1:44 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-05 2:53 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-05 3:40 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-07 19:05 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 08/14] hugetlbfs: add a list for tracking in-use HugeTLB pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 09/14] hugetlbfs: Make some static variables global Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 10/14] hugetlbfs: Add new HugeTLB cgroup Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 1:19 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-31 5:43 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 9:43 ` Michal Hocko
2012-05-31 14:01 ` Michal Hocko
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 11/14] hugetlbfs: add hugetlb cgroup control files Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-31 1:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-05-31 5:39 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 12/14] hugetlb: add charge/uncharge calls for HugeTLB alloc/free Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 13/14] hugetlb: migrate hugetlb cgroup info from oldpage to new page during migration Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-05-30 14:38 ` [PATCH -V7 14/14] hugetlb: add HugeTLB controller documentation Aneesh Kumar K.V
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