Many places in drivers/ file systems error was handled
like below -
ret = (ret == -ENOMEM) ? VM_FAULT_OOM : VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
This new inline function vmf_error() will replace this
and return vm_fault_t type err.
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a4d8853..e283dd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2453,6 +2453,18 @@ static inline vm_fault_t vmf_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
}
+static inline vm_fault_t vmf_error(int err)
+{
+ vm_fault_t ret;
+
+ if (err == -ENOMEM)
+ ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
+ else
+ ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
struct page *follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, unsigned int foll_flags,
unsigned int *page_mask);
--
1.9.1
