On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:08:06PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Currently we have two different structures for passing fault information > around - struct vm_fault and struct fault_env. DAX will need more > information in struct vm_fault to handle its faults so the content of > that structure would become event closer to fault_env. Furthermore it > would need to generate struct fault_env to be able to call some of the > generic functions. So at this point I don't think there's much use in > keeping these two structures separate. Just embed into struct vm_fault > all that is needed to use it for both purposes. Looks sensible, and I wonder why it's not been like that from the start. But given that you touched all users of the virtual_address member earlier: any reason not to move everyone to the unmasked variant there and avoid having to pass the address twice? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>