The patch titled Subject: mm: change return values of finish_mkwrite_fault() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-change-return-values-of-finish_mkwrite_fault.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-change-return-values-of-finish_mkwrite_fault.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-return-values-of-finish_mkwrite_fault.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm: change return values of finish_mkwrite_fault() Currently finish_mkwrite_fault() returns 0 when PTE got changed before we acquired PTE lock and VM_FAULT_WRITE when we succeeded in modifying the PTE. This is somewhat confusing since 0 generally means success, it is also inconsistent with finish_fault() which returns 0 on success. Change finish_mkwrite_fault() to return 0 on success and VM_FAULT_NOPAGE when PTE changed. Practically, there should be no behavioral difference since we bail out from the fault the same way regardless whether we return 0, VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, or VM_FAULT_WRITE. Also note that VM_FAULT_WRITE has no effect for shared mappings since the only two places that check it - KSM and GUP - care about private mappings only. Generally the meaning of VM_FAULT_WRITE for shared mappings is not well defined and we should probably clean that up. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479460644-25076-17-git-send-email-jack@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-change-return-values-of-finish_mkwrite_fault mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-change-return-values-of-finish_mkwrite_fault +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -2295,10 +2295,10 @@ int finish_mkwrite_fault(struct vm_fault */ if (!pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte)) { pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl); - return 0; + return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE; } wp_page_reuse(vmf); - return VM_FAULT_WRITE; + return 0; } /* @@ -2341,8 +2341,7 @@ static int wp_page_shared(struct vm_faul return tmp; } tmp = finish_mkwrite_fault(vmf); - if (unlikely(!tmp || (tmp & - (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))) { + if (unlikely(tmp & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE))) { unlock_page(vmf->page); put_page(vmf->page); return tmp; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are mm-join-struct-fault_env-and-vm_fault.patch mm-use-vmf-address-instead-of-of-vmf-virtual_address.patch mm-use-pgoff-in-struct-vm_fault-instead-of-passing-it-separately.patch mm-use-passed-vm_fault-structure-in-__do_fault.patch mm-trim-__do_fault-arguments.patch mm-use-passed-vm_fault-structure-for-in-wp_pfn_shared.patch mm-add-orig_pte-field-into-vm_fault.patch mm-allow-full-handling-of-cow-faults-in-fault-handlers.patch mm-factor-out-functionality-to-finish-page-faults.patch mm-move-handling-of-cow-faults-into-dax-code.patch mm-factor-out-common-parts-of-write-fault-handling.patch mm-pass-vm_fault-structure-into-do_page_mkwrite.patch mm-use-vmf-page-during-wp-faults.patch mm-move-part-of-wp_page_reuse-into-the-single-call-site.patch mm-provide-helper-for-finishing-mkwrite-faults.patch mm-change-return-values-of-finish_mkwrite_fault.patch mm-export-follow_pte.patch dax-make-cache-flushing-protected-by-entry-lock.patch dax-protect-pte-modification-on-wp-fault-by-radix-tree-entry-lock.patch dax-clear-dirty-entry-tags-on-cache-flush.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html