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Souptick Joarder 1c8f422059 mm: change return type to vm_fault_t
The plan for these patches is to introduce the typedef, initially just
as documentation ("These functions should return a VM_FAULT_ status").
We'll trickle the patches to individual drivers/filesystems in through
the maintainers, as far as possible.  Then we'll change the typedef to
an unsigned int and break the compilation of any unconverted
drivers/filesystems.

vmf_insert_page(), vmf_insert_mixed() and vmf_insert_pfn() are three
newly added functions.  The various drivers/filesystems where return
value of fault(), huge_fault(), page_mkwrite() and pfn_mkwrite() get
converted, will need them.  These functions will return correct
VM_FAULT_ code based on err value.

We've had bugs before where drivers returned -EFOO.  And we have this
silly inefficiency where vm_insert_xxx() return an errno which (afaict)
every driver then converts into a VM_FAULT code.  In many cases drivers
failed to return correct VM_FAULT code value despite of vm_insert_xxx()
fails.  We have indentified and clean up all those existing bugs and
silly inefficiencies in driver/filesystems by adding these three new
inline wrappers.  As mentioned above, we will trickle those patches to
individual drivers/filesystems in through maintainers after these three
wrapper functions are merged.

Eventually we can convert vm_insert_xxx() into vmf_insert_xxx() and
remove these inline wrappers, but these are a good intermediate step.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180310162351.GA7422@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
arch mm: fix races between swapoff and flush dcache 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
block Char/Misc patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 20:07:20 -07:00
certs
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-04-04 17:11:08 -07:00
Documentation mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
drivers zram: drop max_zpage_size and use zs_huge_class_size() 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
firmware
fs block_invalidatepage(): only release page if the full page was invalidated 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
include mm: change return type to vm_fault_t 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
init Merge branch 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux 2018-04-02 21:22:12 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
kernel kernel/fork.c: detect early free of a live mm 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
lib lib: fix stall in __bitmap_parselist() 2018-04-05 21:36:21 -07:00
LICENSES
mm mm, oom: remove 3% bonus for CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
net net/9p/client.c: fix potential refcnt problem of trans module 2018-04-05 21:36:23 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-04-03 14:04:18 -07:00
scripts scripts/faddr2line: show the code context 2018-04-05 21:36:21 -07:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-03 19:15:32 -07:00
sound Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-04-03 14:04:18 -07:00
tools Char/Misc patches for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-04 20:07:20 -07:00
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Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.