[PATCH v2 1/6] riscv/mm/fault: simplify code for do_page_fault()

Palmer Dabbelt palmer at rivosinc.com
Tue Mar 14 22:09:06 PDT 2023


On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:02:37 PDT (-0700), willy at infradead.org wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:03:54PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> To make the code more hierarchical and readable, we fold vma related
>> judgments into __do_page_fault(). And to simplify the code, move the
>> tsk->thread.bad_cause's setting into bad_area(). No functional change
>> intended.
>
> I think this is exaactly the wrong thing to be doing.  Please _stop_
> using custom internal VM_FAULT flags, not adding new uses!

I'm fine with that.  The rest of the patch set was to chunk out a few to 
avoid them stepping on generic stuff, but we don't really need that in 
RISC-V land (aside from this, which is sort of a mixed bag WRT whether 
this is simpler or not).  That's sort of why I held off on merging this 
in the first place.

That said, the follow-on patches do clean up some mixing between generic 
and arch codes for other ports.  I'm not sure if those can manifest as a 
real bug or not.



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