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| author | Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> | 2008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-24 10:47:15 -0700 |
| commit | 28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc (patch) | |
| tree | e8f1efd05c38c1cb26ca3ee051a454eb685fd122 /include/linux/mm.h | |
| parent | 0d71d10a4252a3938e6b70189bc776171c02e076 (diff) | |
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access_process_vm device memory infrastructure
In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using
the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory
through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.
This patch:
Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place
to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.
[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index eb815cfc1b35..5c7f8f64f70e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ struct vm_operations_struct { /* notification that a previously read-only page is about to become * writable, if an error is returned it will cause a SIGBUS */ int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page); + + /* called by access_process_vm when get_user_pages() fails, typically + * for use by special VMAs that can switch between memory and hardware + */ + int (*access)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, + void *buf, int len, int write); #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA /* * set_policy() op must add a reference to any non-NULL @new mempolicy @@ -771,6 +777,8 @@ int copy_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src, struct vm_area_struct *vma); void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t const holebegin, loff_t const holelen, int even_cows); +int generic_access_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, + void *buf, int len, int write); static inline void unmap_shared_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t const holebegin, loff_t const holelen) |