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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
	dhillf@gmail.com, rientjes@google.com, mhocko@suse.cz,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V8 02/16] hugetlb: don't use ERR_PTR with VM_FAULT* values
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 18:47:14 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mx4clj51.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120609111010.GA16034@localhost.localdomain>

Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 02:29:47PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> 
>> The current use of VM_FAULT_* codes with ERR_PTR requires us to ensure
>> VM_FAULT_* values will not exceed MAX_ERRNO value. Decouple the
>> VM_FAULT_* values from MAX_ERRNO.
>
> I see you using the -ENOMEM|-ENOSPC, but I don't see any reference in the
> code to MAX_ERRNO? Can you provide a comment explaining in a tad little
> bit about the interaction of MAX_ERRNO and VM_FAULT?

That comes from this 

#define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) unlikely((x) >= (unsigned long)-MAX_ERRNO)


-aneesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-09 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-09  8:59 [PATCH -V8 00/16] hugetlb: Add HugeTLB controller to control HugeTLB allocation Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 01/16] hugetlb: rename max_hstate to hugetlb_max_hstate Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 02/16] hugetlb: don't use ERR_PTR with VM_FAULT* values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09 11:10   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-09 13:17     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2012-06-09 19:28   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2012-06-10  1:59   ` Hillf Danton
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 03/16] hugetlb: add an inline helper for finding hstate index Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 04/16] hugetlb: use mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 05/16] hugetlb: avoid taking i_mmap_mutex in unmap_single_vma() for hugetlb Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  9:44   ` Johannes Weiner
2012-06-09 13:03     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09 14:49       ` Johannes Weiner
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 06/16] hugetlb: simplify migrate_huge_page() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-12  7:31   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 07/16] hugetlb: add a list for tracking in-use HugeTLB pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 08/16] hugetlb: Make some static variables global Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-12  7:35   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 09/16] mm/hugetlb: Add new HugeTLB cgroup Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-12  7:46   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-12  9:37     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 10/16] hugetlb/cgroup: Add the cgroup pointer to page lru Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09 11:14   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-09 17:04   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11  8:16   ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11  9:03     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11  9:16       ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11  9:33         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11  8:41   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-12  7:52   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-12  9:40     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 11/16] hugetlb/cgroup: Add charge/uncharge routines for hugetlb cgroup Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11  8:38   ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11  9:10     ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11  9:28     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11 12:59       ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11 15:35         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-12  8:08   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-12 10:50     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-13 11:02       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 12/16] hugetlb/cgroup: Add support for cgroup removal Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11  8:52   ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11  9:40     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11 13:14       ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11 15:34         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-12  8:23   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-12 10:52     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 13/16] hugetlb/cgroup: add hugetlb cgroup control files Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09 11:19   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-06-11  9:02   ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11  9:43     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11 13:15       ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-12  8:35   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-12 10:58     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-13  0:16       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-09  8:59 ` [PATCH -V8 14/16] hugetlb/cgroup: add charge/uncharge calls for HugeTLB alloc/free Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  9:23   ` Johannes Weiner
2012-06-09 13:09     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09 14:30       ` Johannes Weiner
2012-06-09 15:55         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11  9:19         ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11  9:21   ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11 10:29     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-09  9:00 ` [PATCH -V8 15/16] hugetlb/cgroup: migrate hugetlb cgroup info from oldpage to new page during migration Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-11  9:24   ` Michal Hocko
2012-06-11 10:17     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-12  8:51   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-12 11:00     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-13 11:15       ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-06-09  9:00 ` [PATCH -V8 16/16] hugetlb/cgroup: add HugeTLB controller documentation Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-06-12  8:57   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki

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