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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 8d10b5540c73..4b4fc3a7ea48 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@ static int insert_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, struct page *pa spinlock_t *ptl; retval = -EINVAL; - if (PageAnon(page) || !PageReserved(page)) + if (PageAnon(page)) goto out; retval = -ENOMEM; flush_dcache_page(page); @@ -1197,6 +1197,35 @@ out: } /* + * This allows drivers to insert individual pages they've allocated + * into a user vma. + * + * The page has to be a nice clean _individual_ kernel allocation. + * If you allocate a compound page, you need to have marked it as + * such (__GFP_COMP), or manually just split the page up yourself + * (which is mainly an issue of doing "set_page_count(page, 1)" for + * each sub-page, and then freeing them one by one when you free + * them rather than freeing it as a compound page). + * + * NOTE! Traditionally this was done with "remap_pfn_range()" which + * took an arbitrary page protection parameter. This doesn't allow + * that. Your vma protection will have to be set up correctly, which + * means that if you want a shared writable mapping, you'd better + * ask for a shared writable mapping! + * + * The page does not need to be reserved. + */ +int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, struct page *page) +{ + if (addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end) + return -EFAULT; + if (!page_count(page)) + return -EINVAL; + return insert_page(vma->vm_mm, addr, page, vma->vm_page_prot); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_insert_page); + +/* * Somebody does a pfn remapping that doesn't actually work as a vma. * * Do it as individual pages instead, and warn about it. It's bad form, @@ -1225,8 +1254,11 @@ static int incomplete_pfn_remap(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) return -EINVAL; - retval = 0; page = pfn_to_page(pfn); + if (!PageReserved(page)) + return -EINVAL; + + retval = 0; while (start < end) { retval = insert_page(vma->vm_mm, start, page, prot); if (retval < 0) |