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Message-Id: <20130522151401.E69EDE0090@blue.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 18:14:01 +0300 (EEST)
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 33/39] thp, mm: implement do_huge_linear_fault()

Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > @@ -3316,17 +3361,25 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >                 if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
> >                         return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> >
> > -               cow_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, address);
> > +               cow_page = alloc_fault_page_vma(vma, address, flags);
> >                 if (!cow_page)
> > -                       return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> > +                       return VM_FAULT_OOM | VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
> >
> 
> Fallback makes sense with !thp ?

No, it's nop. handle_pte_fault() will notice only VM_FAULT_OOM. That's
what we need.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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