On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 01:37:02AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> 
> > Hi Matthew/ Ross,
> > 
> > There are two changes exist in mm/huge_memory.c as part of this
> > patch. vmf_insert_pfn_pmd() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() functions are
> > invoked from this patch.
> > 
> > Shall we put both in a single patch that it will easy to bisect in case
> > we have any issue ?
> > 
> 
> Please put them into a single patch, there's no reason to convert
> 
> int foo() -> vm_fault_t foo()
> 
> but leave
> 
> int bar()
> {
>       return foo()
> }
> 
> It would be best just to convert all callers to also return vm_fault_t as 
> I outlined in my response.

Yes, they're all getting converted, but there are too many to do in a
single patch.  So it's just a matter of how to split them up.  Since the
types are compatible (for now), I advised Souptick to split them by
maintenance area in order to minimise conflicts with other patches.
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