From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82806B005D for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:18:48 +0200 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: handle_mm_fault() calling convention cleanup.. Message-ID: <20090623071848.GC21180@wotan.suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, Wu Fengguang , Ingo Molnar List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org