From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bos@serpentine.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mlockall for PROT_NONE mappings
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:49:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031009104918.GB4699@actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031009104218.GA1935@averell>
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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:42:18PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I added a new argument force==2 to get_user_pages that means to ignore
> SIGBUS or unaccessible pages errors. MAY_* is still checked for like
> with the old force ==1, it just doesn't error out now for SIGBUS
> errors on handle_mm_fault.
How about making it an enum or define for code readability? I'd much
rather see an IGNORE_BAD_PAGES or some such than a cryptic '2' in the
code. I can send a patch to that effect if you'd like?
Cheers,
Muli
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 10:42 [PATCH] Fix mlockall for PROT_NONE mappings Andi Kleen
2003-10-09 10:49 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2003-10-09 11:22 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-09 11:24 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-10-09 11:31 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-09 14:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-09 14:52 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-09 14:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-09 15:12 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-09 15:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-09 15:33 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-09 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-10-09 16:34 ` Andi Kleen
2003-10-09 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
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