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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2019-07-24 08:52:52 +0200
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2019-07-25 16:14:39 -0300
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mm/hmm: always return EBUSY for invalid ranges in hmm_range_{fault,snapshot}
We should not have two different error codes for the same condition. EAGAIN must be reserved for the FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY retry case and signals to the caller that the mmap_sem has been unlocked. Use EBUSY for the !valid case so that callers can get the locking right. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190724065258.16603-2-hch@lst.de Tested-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> [jgg: elaborated commit message] Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
index 7d90964abbb0..710ce1c701bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ The usage pattern is::
ret = hmm_range_snapshot(&range);
if (ret) {
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
+ if (ret == -EBUSY) {
/*
* No need to check hmm_range_wait_until_valid() return value
* on retry we will get proper error with hmm_range_snapshot()