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[17/20] mm: Export follow_pte()

Message ID 1474992504-20133-18-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
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Jan Kara Sept. 27, 2016, 4:08 p.m. UTC 
DAX will need to implement its own version of page_check_address(). To
avoid duplicating page table walking code, export follow_pte() which
does what we need.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
---
 include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++
 mm/memory.c        | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Ross Zwisler Oct. 18, 2016, 6:37 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 06:08:21PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> DAX will need to implement its own version of page_check_address(). To
> avoid duplicating page table walking code, export follow_pte() which
> does what we need.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index e5a014be8932..133fabe4bb4c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1224,6 +1224,8 @@  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_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pte_t **ptepp,
+	       spinlock_t **ptlp);
 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,
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 8c8cb7f2133e..e7a4a30a5e88 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3763,8 +3763,8 @@  out:
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
-static inline int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
-			     pte_t **ptepp, spinlock_t **ptlp)
+int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pte_t **ptepp,
+	       spinlock_t **ptlp)
 {
 	int res;