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access_process_vm device memory infrastructure

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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>
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Rik van Riel
2008-07-23 21:27:05 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0d71d10a42
commit 28b2ee20c7
8 changed files with 144 additions and 18 deletions
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@@ -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)