On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> We could just do:
>
> static inline int handle_mm_fault(...)
> {
> int ret = __handle_mm_fault(...);
>
> if (unlikely(ret == VM_FAULT_RACE))
> ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
The reason I really dislike this whole VM_FAULT_RACE thing is that there's
literally just one user that cares, and that user is such a special case
anyway that we're _much_ better off fixing it in that user instead.
The dirty bit thing is truly trivial, and is a generic VM feature. The
fact that s390 does strange things is immaterial: I bet that s390 can be
fixed much more easily than the suggested VM_FAULT_RACE patch, and quite
frankly, bringing it semantically closer to the rest of the architectures
is a _good_ thing regardless.
Linus
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