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[3/3] mm: introduce follow_pfn()

Message ID 1241430874-12667-3-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org (mailing list archive)
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Johannes Weiner May 4, 2009, 9:54 a.m. UTC 
Analoguous to follow_phys(), add a helper that looks up the PFN
instead.  It also only allows IO mappings or PFN mappings.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |    2 ++
 mm/memory.c        |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig May 4, 2009, 11:08 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:54:34AM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Analoguous to follow_phys(), add a helper that looks up the PFN
> instead.  It also only allows IO mappings or PFN mappings.

A kerneldoc describing what it does and the limitations would be
extremly helpful.

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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index bff1f0d..1cca8b6 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -794,6 +794,8 @@  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 follow_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+	unsigned long *pfn);
 int follow_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 		unsigned int flags, unsigned long *prot, resource_size_t *phys);
 int generic_access_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index aee167d..05fc8e5 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3046,6 +3046,25 @@  out:
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
+int follow_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+	unsigned long *pfn)
+{
+	int ret = -EINVAL;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	pte_t *ptep;
+
+	if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)))
+		return ret;
+
+	ret = follow_pte(vma->vm_mm, address, &ptep, &ptl);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+	*pfn = pte_pfn(*ptep);
+	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(follow_pfn);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
 int follow_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long address, unsigned int flags,