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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-31 18:43:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-31 18:43:41 +0200 |
| commit | 85e9ca333d03fbd56b9e123c8456f0d98e20faad (patch) | |
| tree | 7bb15ada5f536950efa23ad60ea9eea60380ca1c /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | a300bec952127d9a15e666b391bb35c9aecb3002 (diff) | |
| parent | 6e86841d05f371b5b9b86ce76c02aaee83352298 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into timers/hpet
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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 |
