Re: handle_mm_fault() calling convention cleanup..

Nick Piggin
2009-06-23T07:18:47Z

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:42:35PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Just a heads up that I committed the patches that I sent out two months
> ago to make the fault handling routines use the finer-grained fault flags
> (FAULT_FLAG_xyzzy) rather than passing in a boolean for "write".

While you've got everyone's attention, may I just remind arch
maintainers to consider using pagefault_out_of_memory() rather
than unconditional kill current in the pagefault OOM case. See
x86.

Thanks,
Nick