On Sat, 2018-05-12 at 11:47 +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler
> in struct vm_operations_struct. For now, this is
> just documenting that the function returns a
> VM_FAULT value rather than an errno. Once all
> instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become
> a distinct type.
trivia:
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
[]
> @@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ struct vm_special_mapping {
> * If non-NULL, then this is called to resolve page faults
> * on the special mapping. If used, .pages is not checked.
> */
> - int (*fault)(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm,
> + vm_fault_t (*fault)(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> struct vm_fault *vmf);
It'd be nicer to realign the 2nd and 3rd arguments
on the subsequent lines.
vm_fault_t (*fault)(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm,
struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct vm_fault *vmf);
