Re: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio v2

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On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 07:57:48 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> __filemap_get_folio and its wrappers can return NULL for three different
> conditions, which in some cases requires the caller to reverse engineer
> the decision making.  This is fixed by returning an ERR_PTR instead of
> NULL and thus transporting the reason for the failure.  But to make
> that work we first need to ensure that no xa_value special case is
> returned and thus return the FGP_ENTRY flag.  It turns out that flag
> is barely used and can usually be deal with in a better way.
> 
> Note that the shmem patches in here are non-trivial and need some
> careful review and testing.

I'll hide for a while, awaiting that review.  Plus...

> Changes since v1:
>  - drop the patches to check for errors in btrfs and gfs2
>  - document the new calling conventions for the wrappers around
>    __filemap_get_folio
>  - rebased against the iomap changes in latest linux-next

This patchset doesn't apply to fs/btrfs/ because linux-next contains
this 6+ month-old commit:

commit 964688b32d9ada55a7fce2e650d85ef24188f73f                
Author:     Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue May 17 18:03:27 2022 -0400
Commit:     Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed Jun 29 08:51:07 2022 -0400

    btrfs: Use a folio in wait_dev_supers()


Matthew, what's the story here?




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