Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] mm: replace folio_lock_or_retry with folio_lock_fault

Peter Xu
2023-06-27T15:24:07Z

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 09:23:17PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> Change folio_lock_or_retry to accept vm_fault struct and return the
> vm_fault_t directly. This will be used later to return additional
> information about the state of the mmap_lock upon return from this
> function.
>
> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

The patch looks all fine to me except on the renaming..

*_fault() makes me think of a fault handler, while *_lock_or_retry() was
there for years and it still sounds better than the new one to me.

Can we still come up with a better renaming, or just keep the name?

Thanks,

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Peter Xu