Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:19:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] page fault retry with NOPAGE_RETRY |
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > This wait is interruptible. However, we have no way to fail "gracefully" > from no_page() if the routine we use underneath returns a failure due to > a signal (we use, logically, -EINTR). It's a generic issue with no_page > handlers. They can either wait non-interruptibly, or fail with a sigbus > or oom result.
I certainly personally have nothing against adding a NOPAGE_RETRY, it seems very straightforward.
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