linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm: Rework return value for copy_one

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjU-k5jDE62_VfWrT7EwiLnBtDOM7kdTQ7ALC2x_HBh3g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:24:00 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>,
        Kirill Shutemov <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm: Rework return value for copy_one_pte()

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:16 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> But these two patches are very intentionally meant to be just "this
> clearly changes NO semantics at all".

The more I look at these, the more I go "this is a cleanup
regardless", so I'll just keep thes in my tree as-is.

                 Linus