linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/16] mm: Prepare for FAULT_FLAG

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Message-Id: <d75b8f01-4fc0-bb29-cf80-0e91d91f238f@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2017 12:54:06 +0200
From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Cc:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ak@...ux.intel.com, mhocko@...nel.org,
        dave@...olabs.net, jack@...e.cz,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
        mpe@...erman.id.au, paulus@...ba.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, hpa@...or.com,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        haren@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, bsingharora@...il.com,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/16] mm: Prepare for FAULT_FLAG_SPECULATIVE

On 09/08/2017 12:08, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:35:35PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> @@ -2295,7 +2302,11 @@ static int wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>>  	/*
>>  	 * Re-check the pte - we dropped the lock
>>  	 */
>> -	vmf->pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->address, &vmf->ptl);
>> +	if (!pte_map_lock(vmf)) {
>> +		mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg, false);
>> +		ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
>> +		goto oom_free_new;
> 
> With the change, label is misleading.

That's right.
But I'm wondering renaming it out to 'out_free_new' and replacing all the
matching 'goto' where the label was making sense will help readability ?
Have you better idea ?