Re: [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed faulthandlers

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 06:57 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 18:12 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > OK, I've cleaned up and further improved this patchset, removed duplication
> > while retaining legacy nopage handling, restored page_mkwrite to the ->fault
> > path (due to lack of users upstream to attempt a conversion), converted the
> > rest of the filesystems to use ->fault, restored MAP_POPULATE and population
> > of remap_file_pages pages, replaced nopfn completely, and removed
> > NOPAGE_REFAULT because that can be done easily with ->fault.
> 
> What is the replacement ?

I see ... so we now use PTR_ERR to return errors and NULL for refault...
good for me but Andrew may want more...

Ben


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