Re: handle_mm_fault() calling convention cleanup..

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-07-06T10:56:43Z

On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 09:31 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> I have no problems with that. I'd always intended to have flags
> go further up the call chain like Linus did (since we'd discussed
> perhaps making faults interruptible and requiring an extra flag
> to distinguish get_user_pages callers that were not interruptible).
>
> So yes adding more flags to improve code or make things simpler
> is fine by me :)
>
That's before you see my evil plan of bringing the flags all the way
down to set_pte_at() :-)

Cheers,
Ben.