On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:56:45 +0530 Pushkar Jambhlekar <pushkar....@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Changing rc value from VM_FAULT_FALLBACK to VM_FAULT_SIGBUS for an unknown / 
> unsupported fault size.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/drivers/dax/dax.c
> +++ b/drivers/dax/dax.c
> @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static int dax_dev_huge_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf,
>               rc = __dax_dev_pud_fault(dax_dev, vmf);
>               break;
>       default:
> -             rc =  VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
> +             rc = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
>       }
>       rcu_read_unlock();

The change seems to make sense but more info would be helpful.  What
is wrong with the current code?  ie, what goes wrong if we return
VM_FAULT_FALLBACK here?

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