Re: [PATCH 2/3] mm: Export follow_pte()
From: Ross Zwisler <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-24 21:55:12
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 05:45:14PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
DAX will need to implement its own version of check_page_address(). To
page_check_address()
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
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 | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 5df5feb49575..989f5d949db3 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h@@ -1193,6 +1193,8 @@ 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 15322b73636b..f6175d63c2e9 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c@@ -3647,8 +3647,8 @@ 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;@@ -3657,6 +3657,7 @@ static inline int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, !(res = __follow_pte(mm, address, ptepp, ptlp))); return res; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(follow_pte); /** * follow_pfn - look up PFN at a user virtual address-- 2.6.6
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