On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
Good idea, at least to avoid changing all arches at this moment;
though I don't think handle_mm_fault itself can be static inline.
But let's set this VM_FAULT_RACE approach aside for now: I think
we're agreed that the pte_dirty-with-mods-to-s390 route is more
attractive, so I'll now try to find fault with that approach.
Hugh
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