On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 07:52:57PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote: > For what I understand now, IMHO we should still need all those handlings of > FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT like in the initial version. E.g., IIUC KVM gup will > try with FOLL_NOWAIT when async is allowed, before the complete slow path. > I'm > not sure what would be the side effect of that if fault() blocked it. E.g., > the caller could be in an atomic context.
AFAICT FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT only impacts what happens when VM_FAULT_RETRY is returned, which this doesn't do? It is not a generic 'do not sleep' Do you know different? Jason
