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Revision d97baf9470b0668904aa96865abe7db4000dc3ba authored by Souptick Joarder on 18 May 2018, 23:08:47 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 19 May 2018, 00:17:12 UTC
Many places in drivers/ file systems, error was handled in a common way
like below:

	ret = (ret == -ENOMEM) ? VM_FAULT_OOM : VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;

vmf_error() will replace this and return vm_fault_t type err.

A lot of drivers and filesystems currently have a rather complex mapping
of errno-to-VM_FAULT code.  We have been able to eliminate a lot of it
by just returning VM_FAULT codes directly from functions which are
called exclusively from the fault handling path.

Some functions can be called both from the fault handler and other
context which are expecting an errno, so they have to continue to return
an errno.  Some users still need to choose different behaviour for
different errnos, but vmf_error() captures the essential error
translation that's common to all users, and those that need to handle
additional errors can handle them first.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180510174826.GA14268@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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README
Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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