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Commit 30c9f3a9 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Remove internal use of 'write_access' in mm/memory.c



The fault handling routines really want more fine-grained flags than a
single "was it a write fault" boolean - the callers will want to set
flags like "you can return a retry error" etc.

And that's actually how the VM works internally, but right now the
top-level fault handling functions in mm/memory.c all pass just the
'write_access' boolean around.

This switches them over to pass around the FAULT_FLAG_xyzzy 'flags'
variable instead.  The 'write_access' calling convention still exists
for the exported 'handle_mm_fault()' function, but that is next.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 232086b1
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