From 28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rik van Riel Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:27:05 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index eb815cfc1b3..5c7f8f64f70 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) -- cgit v1.2.3