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authorJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>2006-03-26 01:36:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-26 08:56:53 -0800
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[PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pages
Currently, get_user_pages() returns fully coherent pages to the kernel for anything other than anonymous pages. This is a problem for things like fuse and the SCSI generic ioctl SG_IO which can potentially wish to do DMA to anonymous pages passed in by users. The fix is to add a new memory management API: flush_anon_page() which is used in get_user_pages() to make anonymous pages coherent. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/highmem.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index 6bece9280eb7..7bd2593dbef9 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+#ifndef ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ANON_PAGE
+static inline void flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
#include <asm/highmem.h>