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SubjectRe: [patch 18/39] remap_file_pages protection support: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:21:45PM +0200, blaisorblade@yahoo.it wrote:
> @@ -632,10 +632,11 @@ static inline int page_mapped(struct pag
> * Used to decide whether a process gets delivered SIGBUS or
> * just gets major/minor fault counters bumped up.
> */
> -#define VM_FAULT_OOM (-1)
> -#define VM_FAULT_SIGBUS 0
> -#define VM_FAULT_MINOR 1
> -#define VM_FAULT_MAJOR 2
> +#define VM_FAULT_OOM (-1)
> +#define VM_FAULT_SIGBUS 0
> +#define VM_FAULT_MINOR 1
> +#define VM_FAULT_MAJOR 2
> +#define VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV 3
>
> #define offset_in_page(p) ((unsigned long)(p) & ~PAGE_MASK)
>

Please arrange for "success" values to be numerically larger than "failure"
values. This will avoid breaking ARM.

Is there a reason why we don't use -ve numbers for failure and +ve for
success here?

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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