Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug

Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There are currently 21 architectures,
> but so far your patch only updates 14 of them?

We could just do:

static inline int handle_mm_fault(...)
{
	int ret = __handle_mm_fault(...);

	if (unlikely(ret == VM_FAULT_RACE))
		ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
	return ret;
}

because VM_FAULT_RACE is some internal private thing.

It does add another test-n-branch to the pagefault path though.
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