Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/vma: eliminate mmap_action->error_hook, introduce error_filter

[Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 01:23:11PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 6/2/26 12:07, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 11:16:03AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I thik it's what people tend to call this, it's what I've seen it called anyway!
> >>
> >> You mean for this monstrosity or for a mechanism that translates one value to
> >> another one?
> >
> > In general, but a quick search on lore suggests this might not be as common as I
> > thought.
> >
> >>
> >>> I mean your German brain is being logical :) but by convention going with this
> >>> terminology.
> >>
> >> Sorry, but which convention?
> >
> > Of calling this error 'filtering'.
> >
> > I'll send a quick respin and rename this to error_override then!
>
> Thanks! I was primarily trying to understand what my German brain messes up :)

I think honestly on reflection you're right and it's unclear :P so better to use
a more obvious term for this like override! :)

>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David

Cheers, Lorenzo