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| author | Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> | 2009-06-16 15:32:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 19:47:40 -0700 |
| commit | 3b6748e2dd69906af3835db4dc9d1c8a3ee4c68c (patch) | |
| tree | 5d5476844f8e29e31684ce8ccf7e163ab3182ad6 /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | 03668a4debf4f50de55c34b6e66dae63e1c73716 (diff) | |
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mm: introduce follow_pfn()
Analoguous to follow_phys(), add a helper that looks up the PFN at a
user virtual address in an IO mapping or a raw PFN mapping.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 29 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 24ff20480bb..d5d1653d60a 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3140,6 +3140,35 @@ out: return -EINVAL; } +/** + * follow_pfn - look up PFN at a user virtual address + * @vma: memory mapping + * @address: user virtual address + * @pfn: location to store found PFN + * + * Only IO mappings and raw PFN mappings are allowed. + * + * Returns zero and the pfn at @pfn on success, -ve otherwise. + */ +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, |