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

Suren Baghdasaryan
2023-06-27T16:27:21Z

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 8:22 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
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> 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?

I thought about alternatives but could not find anything better. I can
keep the old name if that is preferred.

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> Thanks,
>
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> Peter Xu
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