On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:08:13PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Introduce function finish_fault() as a helper function for finishing
> page faults. It is rather thin wrapper around alloc_set_pte() but since
> we'd want to call this from DAX code or filesystems, it is still useful
> to avoid some boilerplate code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 17db88a38e8a..f54cfad7fe04 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3029,6 +3029,36 @@ int alloc_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> return 0;
> }
>
> +
> +/**
> + * finish_fault - finish page fault once we have prepared the page to fault
> + *
> + * @vmf: structure describing the fault
> + *
> + * This function handles all that is needed to finish a page fault once the
> + * page to fault in is prepared. It handles locking of PTEs, inserts PTE for
> + * given page, adds reverse page mapping, handles memcg charges and LRU
> + * addition. The function returns 0 on success, VM_FAULT_ code in case of
> + * error.
> + *
> + * The function expects the page to be locked.
> + */
> +int finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> + int ret;
> +
> + /* Did we COW the page? */
> + if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE && !(vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
Oh, sorry, I did have one bit of feedback. Maybe added parens around the flag
check for readability:
if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && !(vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
Aside from that one nit:
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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