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authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2008-07-23 21:27:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 10:47:15 -0700
commit28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc (patch)
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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.h8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index eb815cf..5c7f8f6 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)