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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-10-19 22:06:36 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-10-19 22:06:36 +0100
commit809b4e00baf006a990a73329ba381d536c6fa277 (patch)
treee949e0efd019d6f932537aba762792b07a84351c /arch/arm/kernel/process.c
parenta0a55682b83fd5f012afadcf415b030d7424ae68 (diff)
parent79a94c3538bda6869d7bb150b5e02dd3a72314dd (diff)
Merge branch 'devel-stable' into devel
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/kernel/process.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
index 3af34bf4f4df..e76fcaadce03 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/process.c
@@ -482,3 +482,24 @@ unsigned long arch_randomize_brk(struct mm_struct *mm)
unsigned long range_end = mm->brk + 0x02000000;
return randomize_range(mm->brk, range_end, 0) ? : mm->brk;
}
+
+/*
+ * The vectors page is always readable from user space for the
+ * atomic helpers and the signal restart code. Let's declare a mapping
+ * for it so it is visible through ptrace and /proc/<pid>/mem.
+ */
+
+int vectors_user_mapping(void)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+ return install_special_mapping(mm, 0xffff0000, PAGE_SIZE,
+ VM_READ | VM_EXEC |
+ VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYEXEC |
+ VM_ALWAYSDUMP | VM_RESERVED,
+ NULL);
+}
+
+const char *arch_vma_name(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ return (vma->vm_start == 0xffff0000) ? "[vectors]" : NULL;
+}