[PATCH 0/3] mm/arch: Fix a few collide definition on private use of VM_FAULT_*

Peter Xu peterx at redhat.com
Sun Feb 5 15:17:01 PST 2023


I noticed a few collision usage on VM_FAULT_* definition in the page fault
path on arm/arm64/s390 where the VM_FAULT_* can overlap with the generic
definition of vm_fault_reason.

The major overlapped part being VM_FAULT_HINDEX_MASK which is used only by
the hugetlb hwpoisoning.

I'm not sure whether any of them can have a real impact, but that does not
look like to be expected.  I didn't copy stable, if anyone thinks it should
please shoot.  Nor did I test them in any form - I just changed the
allocations from top bits and added a comment for each of them.

Please have a look, thanks.

Peter Xu (3):
  mm/arm: Define private VM_FAULT_* reasons from top bits
  mm/arm64: Define private VM_FAULT_* reasons from top bits
  mm/s390: Define private VM_FAULT_* reasons from top bits

 arch/arm/mm/fault.c   |  8 ++++++--
 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c |  8 ++++++--
 arch/s390/mm/fault.c  | 14 +++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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