linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] cpus4096 tree, part 3

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Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:30:26 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	npiggin@...e.de, mingo@...e.hu, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, travis@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com,
	suresh.b.siddha@...el.com, arjan@...radead.org, hpa@...or.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] cpus4096 tree, part 3

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:09:59 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > +	write = error_code & PF_WRITE;
> > 
> > What's going on here?  We set `error_code' to PF_WRITE, which is some
> > x86-specific thing.
> 
> No. We set "write" to non-zero if it was a write fault.
> 
> > >  	fault = handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, write);
> > 
> > and then pass it into handle_mm_fault(), which is expecting a bunch of
> > flags in the FAULT_FLAG_foo domain.
> 
> No. "handle_mm_fault()" takes an integer that is non-zero if it's a write, 
> zero if it's a read. That's how it has _always_ worked.
> 
> I don't see where you find that FAULT_FLAG_foo thing. That's much deeper 
> down, when people do things like
> 
>         unsigned int flags = FAULT_FLAG_NONLINEAR |
>                                 (write_access ? FAULT_FLAG_WRITE : 0);
> 
> based on that whole "write_access" flag.
> 

OK, thanks.  It's actually page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch
which got those things confused, and then confused me.  I'll go address
that in the other thread..


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