The patch titled
Subject: mm/filemap.c: remove misleading comment
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-remove-misleading-comment.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-remove-misleading-comment.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-remove-misleading-comment.patch
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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/filemap.c: remove misleading comment
We no longer return 0 here and the comment doesn't tell us anything that
we don't already know (SIGBUS is a pretty good indicator that things
didn't work out).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200529123243.20640-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/filemap.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-remove-misleading-comment
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2566,7 +2566,6 @@ page_not_uptodate:
if (!error || error == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE)
goto retry_find;
- /* Things didn't work out. Return zero to tell the mm layer so. */
shrink_readahead_size_eio(ra);
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-move-readahead-prototypes-from-mmh.patch
mm-return-void-from-various-readahead-functions.patch
mm-ignore-return-value-of-readpages.patch
mm-move-readahead-nr_pages-check-into-read_pages.patch
mm-add-new-readahead_control-api.patch
mm-use-readahead_control-to-pass-arguments.patch
mm-rename-various-offset-parameters-to-index.patch
mm-rename-readahead-loop-variable-to-i.patch
mm-remove-page_offset-from-readahead-loop.patch
mm-put-readahead-pages-in-cache-earlier.patch
mm-add-readahead-address-space-operation.patch
mm-move-end_index-check-out-of-readahead-loop.patch
mm-add-page_cache_readahead_unbounded.patch
mm-document-why-we-dont-set-pagereadahead.patch
mm-use-memalloc_nofs_save-in-readahead-path.patch
fs-convert-mpage_readpages-to-mpage_readahead.patch
btrfs-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch
erofs-convert-uncompressed-files-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch
erofs-convert-compressed-files-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch
ext4-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch
ext4-pass-the-inode-to-ext4_mpage_readpages.patch
f2fs-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch
f2fs-pass-the-inode-to-f2fs_mpage_readpages.patch
fuse-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch
fuse-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead-fix.patch
iomap-convert-from-readpages-to-readahead.patch
mm-remove-misleading-comment.patch
mm-simplify-calling-a-compound-page-destructor.patch
ipc-convert-ipcs_idr-to-xarray.patch
ipc-convert-ipcs_idr-to-xarray-update.patch
