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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 /Documentation/filesystems | |
| parent | 0d71d10a4252a3938e6b70189bc776171c02e076 (diff) | |
| download | linux-28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc.tar.bz2 | |
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 'Documentation/filesystems')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 8b22d7d8b991..680fb566b928 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -510,6 +510,7 @@ prototypes: void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*); int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *); int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *); + int (*access)(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, void*, int, int); locking rules: BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page) @@ -517,6 +518,7 @@ open: no yes close: no yes fault: no yes page_mkwrite: no yes no +access: no yes ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for @@ -525,6 +527,11 @@ taking to lock out truncate, the page range should be verified to be within i_size. The page mapping should also be checked that it is not NULL. + ->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in +acces_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through +/proc/pid/mem or ptrace. This function is needed only for +VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP VMAs. + ================================================================================ Dubious stuff |