filemap_fault (9) Linux Manual Page
filemap_fault – read in file data for page fault handling
Synopsis
int filemap_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);Arguments
vma
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- vma in which the fault was taken
vmf
- struct vm_fault containing details of the fault
Description
filemap_fault is invoked via the vma operations vector for a mapped memory region to read in file data during a page fault.
The goto’s are kind of ugly, but this streamlines the normal case of having it in the page cache, and handles the special cases reasonably without having a lot of duplicated code.
vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem must be held on entry.
If our return value has VM_FAULT_RETRY set, it’s because lock_page_or_retry returned 0. The mmap_sem has usually been released in this case. See __lock_page_or_retry for the exception.
If our return value does not have VM_FAULT_RETRY set, the mmap_sem has not been released.
We never return with VM_FAULT_RETRY and a bit from VM_FAULT_ERROR set.