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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-14 12:19:59 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-14 12:19:59 +0200
commit8d7ccaa545490cdffdfaff0842436a8dd85cf47b (patch)
tree8129b5907161bc6ae26deb3645ce1e280c5e1f51 /Documentation/filesystems/Locking
parentb2139aa0eec330c711c5a279db361e5ef1178e78 (diff)
parent30a2f3c60a84092c8084dfe788b710f8d0768cd4 (diff)
Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc3' into x86/prototypes
Conflicts: include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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.
+
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Dubious stuff