Re: [PATCH V2 19/31] powerpc/mm: Convert 4k hash insert to C

From
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date
2015-09-30 20:18:39
Reply to
Anshuman Khandual, 2015-09-30
On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 17:37 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
quoted
+             if (unlikely(old_pte & _PAGE_BUSY))
+                     return 0;
+             /* If PTE permissions don't match, take page fault */
We are already in page fault interrupt path,  will it be better
if we call it "take Linux page fault" instead as we will go back
walking the page table.
A better wording would be "escalate the page fault"

Cheers,
Ben.
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