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Subject: Re: writepage return value check in vmscan.c
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:36, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A few fixes have been discussed.  One way would be to allocate
> the space for the page when it is first faulted into reality and
> deliver SIGBUS if backing store for it could not be allocated.

You still have to handle the situation where the page goes walkies and
you get ENOSPC or any other ERANDOMSUPRISE from things like NFS. SIGBUS
appears the right thing to do.

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