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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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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