On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:05:13 -0400
Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> wrote:

[...]

> @@ -4393,6 +4425,38 @@ vm_fault_t handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, 
> unsigned long address,
>                       mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(false);
>       }
> 
> +     if (ret & VM_FAULT_RETRY)
> +             return ret;

I'm wondering if this also needs a check and exit for VM_FAULT_ERROR.
In arch code (s390 and all others I briefly checked), the accounting
was skipped for VM_FAULT_ERROR case.

> +
> +     /*
> +      * Do accounting in the common code, to avoid unnecessary
> +      * architecture differences or duplicated code.
> +      *
> +      * We arbitrarily make the rules be:
> +      *
> +      *  - faults that never even got here (because the address
> +      *    wasn't valid). That includes arch_vma_access_permitted()

Missing "do not count" at the end of the first sentence?

> +      *    failing above.
> +      *
> +      *    So this is expressly not a "this many hardware page
> +      *    faults" counter. Use the hw profiling for that.
> +      *
> +      *  - incomplete faults (ie RETRY) do not count (see above).
> +      *    They will only count once completed.
> +      *
> +      *  - the fault counts as a "major" fault when the final
> +      *    successful fault is VM_FAULT_MAJOR, or if it was a
> +      *    retry (which implies that we couldn't handle it
> +      *    immediately previously).
> +      *
> +      *  - if the fault is done for GUP, regs wil be NULL and

wil -> will

Regards,
Gerald

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