linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 7/7] mm: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get

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Message-ID: <20230123154447.GP11562@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:44:47 +0100
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        cluster-devel@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nilfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] mm: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 07:57:55AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Instead of returning NULL for all errors, distinguish between:
> 
>  - no entry found and not asked to allocated (-ENOENT)
>  - failed to allocate memory (-ENOMEM)
>  - would block (-EAGAIN)
> 
> so that callers don't have to guess the error based on the passed
> in flags.
> 
> Also pass through the error through the direct callers:
> filemap_get_folio, filemap_lock_folio filemap_grab_folio
> and filemap_get_incore_folio.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  fs/afs/dir.c             | 10 +++++-----
>  fs/afs/dir_edit.c        |  2 +-
>  fs/afs/write.c           |  4 ++--

For

>  fs/btrfs/disk-io.c       |  2 +-

Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>