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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-30 20:35:19 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-30 20:35:19 +0300
commita145dd411eb28c83ee4bb68b66f62c326c0f764e (patch)
treed88745d3839f501e59cf9ada5274777af939aa2d /mm/memory.c
parentf8e988436b9d83b20bc5cc378f1a8034816ae6a6 (diff)
downloadlinux-a145dd411eb28c83ee4bb68b66f62c326c0f764e.tar.xz
VM: add "vm_insert_page()" function
This is what a lot of drivers will actually want to use to insert individual pages into a user VMA. It doesn't have the old PageReserved restrictions of remap_pfn_range(), and it doesn't complain about partial remappings. The page you insert needs to be a nice clean kernel allocation, so you can't insert arbitrary page mappings with this, but that's not what people want. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c36
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 8d10b5540c73..4b4fc3a7ea48 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ static int insert_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, struct page *pa
spinlock_t *ptl;
retval = -EINVAL;
- if (PageAnon(page) || !PageReserved(page))
+ if (PageAnon(page))
goto out;
retval = -ENOMEM;
flush_dcache_page(page);
@@ -1197,6 +1197,35 @@ out:
}
/*
+ * This allows drivers to insert individual pages they've allocated
+ * into a user vma.
+ *
+ * The page has to be a nice clean _individual_ kernel allocation.
+ * If you allocate a compound page, you need to have marked it as
+ * such (__GFP_COMP), or manually just split the page up yourself
+ * (which is mainly an issue of doing "set_page_count(page, 1)" for
+ * each sub-page, and then freeing them one by one when you free
+ * them rather than freeing it as a compound page).
+ *
+ * NOTE! Traditionally this was done with "remap_pfn_range()" which
+ * took an arbitrary page protection parameter. This doesn't allow
+ * that. Your vma protection will have to be set up correctly, which
+ * means that if you want a shared writable mapping, you'd better
+ * ask for a shared writable mapping!
+ *
+ * The page does not need to be reserved.
+ */
+int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, struct page *page)
+{
+ if (addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (!page_count(page))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ return insert_page(vma->vm_mm, addr, page, vma->vm_page_prot);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_insert_page);
+
+/*
* Somebody does a pfn remapping that doesn't actually work as a vma.
*
* Do it as individual pages instead, and warn about it. It's bad form,
@@ -1225,8 +1254,11 @@ static int incomplete_pfn_remap(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
return -EINVAL;
- retval = 0;
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
+ if (!PageReserved(page))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ retval = 0;
while (start < end) {
retval = insert_page(vma->vm_mm, start, page, prot);
if (retval < 0)