linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix ENOSPC returned by handle_mm

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:57:49 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix ENOSPC returned by handle_mm_fault()

On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 10:03:13PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Al Viro observes that in the hugetlb case, handle_mm_fault() may return
> a value of the kind ENOSPC when its caller is expecting a value of the
> kind VM_FAULT_SIGBUS: fix alloc_huge_page()'s failure returns.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: stable@...nel.org

Nicely spotted!

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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