From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] mm: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 21:39:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKFNMomcjvUSh-nS1MqptYdiT-1frRsmHgx2mHBBm_588kprrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230118094329.9553-10-hch@lst.de>
On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 7:41 PM Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Instead of returning NULL for all errors, distinguish between:
>
> - no entry found and not asked to allocated (-ENOENT)
> - failed to allocate memory (-ENOMEM)
> - would block (-EAGAIN)
>
> so that callers don't have to guess the error based on the passed
> in flags.
>
> Also pass through the error through the direct callers:
> filemap_get_folio, filemap_lock_folio filemap_grab_folio
> and filemap_get_incore_folio.
As for the comments describing the return values of these callers,
isn't it necessary to rewrite the value from NULL in case of errors ?
Regards,
Ryusuke Konishi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-18 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-18 9:43 return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: don't look at xarray value entries in split_huge_pages_in_file Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 13:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm: make mapping_get_entry available outside of filemap.c Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 13:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm: use filemap_get_entry in filemap_get_incore_folio Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 13:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 4/9] shmem: remove shmem_get_partial_folio Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 13:57 ` Brian Foster
2023-01-18 16:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 16:50 ` Brian Foster
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 5/9] shmem: open code the page cache lookup in shmem_get_folio_gfp Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 6/9] mm: remove FGP_ENTRY Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 7/9] gfs2: handle a NULL folio in gfs2_jhead_process_page Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 16:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-01-18 16:24 ` [Cluster-devel] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2023-01-18 16:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 8/9] btrfs: handle a NULL folio in extent_range_redirty_for_io Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 16:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-01-18 16:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 9:43 ` [PATCH 9/9] mm: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-18 12:39 ` Ryusuke Konishi [this message]
2023-01-18 16:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
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