Re: update_mmu_cache(): fault or not fault ?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

> So I suggest adding an argument to it "int is_fault", that would
> basically be '1' on all the call sites in mm/memory.c and '0' in all the
> call sites in mm/fremap.c.
> 
> Any objection, comment, whatever, before I come up with a patch adding
> it to all archs ?

Acutally, that wouldn't work for calls to get_user_pages() which will
cause the fault code path on non-faults... looks like David's solution
is the best one at this point.

Ben.


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