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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-29 00:07:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-29 00:07:55 +0200 |
| commit | cb28a1bbdb4790378e7366d6c9ee1d2340b84f92 (patch) | |
| tree | 316436f77dac75335fd2c3ef5f109e71606c50d3 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | b6d4f7e3ef25beb8c658c97867d98883e69dc544 (diff) | |
| parent | f934fb19ef34730263e6afc01e8ec27a8a71470f (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into core/generic-dma-coherent
Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 8b22d7d8b991..680fb566b928 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -510,6 +510,7 @@ prototypes: void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*); int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *); int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct page *); + int (*access)(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, void*, int, int); locking rules: BKL mmap_sem PageLocked(page) @@ -517,6 +518,7 @@ open: no yes close: no yes fault: no yes page_mkwrite: no yes no +access: no yes ->page_mkwrite() is called when a previously read-only page is about to become writeable. The file system is responsible for @@ -525,6 +527,11 @@ taking to lock out truncate, the page range should be verified to be within i_size. The page mapping should also be checked that it is not NULL. + ->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in +acces_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through +/proc/pid/mem or ptrace. This function is needed only for +VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP VMAs. + ================================================================================ Dubious stuff |