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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	ajackson@redhat.com, airlied@redhat.com,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/5] Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function.
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:27:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080516162734.5e69d336@cuia.bos.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210926049.7886.21.camel@twins>

From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Index: ptrace-2.6.26-rc2-mm1/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
===================================================================
--- ptrace-2.6.26-rc2-mm1.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2008-05-15 12:46:37.000000000 -0400
+++ ptrace-2.6.26-rc2-mm1/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2008-05-16 16:25:10.000000000 -0400
@@ -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 ra
 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
 

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-16 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-15 17:53 [patch 0/5] access_process_vm device memory access Rik van Riel
2008-05-15 17:53 ` [patch 1/5] access_process_vm device memory infrastructure Rik van Riel
2008-05-16  8:20   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-16 20:27     ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-05-15 17:53 ` [patch 2/5] use generic_access_phys for /dev/mem mappings Rik van Riel
2008-05-15 17:54 ` [patch 3/5] use generic_access_phys for pci mmap on x86 Rik van Riel
2008-05-15 17:54 ` [patch 4/5] powerpc ioremap_prot Rik van Riel
2008-05-15 17:54 ` [patch 5/5] spufs use the new vm_ops->access Rik van Riel
2008-05-23  5:58 ` [patch 0/5] access_process_vm device memory access Andrew Morton
2008-05-23  6:01   ` Andrew Morton

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