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authorHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>2011-01-30 11:15:47 +0800
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2011-03-17 13:08:27 -0300
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mm: export __get_user_pages
In most cases, get_user_pages and get_user_pages_fast should be used to pin user pages in memory. But sometimes, some special flags except FOLL_GET, FOLL_WRITE and FOLL_FORCE are needed, for example in following patch, KVM needs FOLL_HWPOISON. To support these users, __get_user_pages is exported directly. There are some symbol name conflicts in infiniband driver, fixed them too. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> CC: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org> CC: Ralph Campbell <infinipath@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 679300c050f5..46150c66318e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -965,6 +965,10 @@ static inline int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
extern int make_pages_present(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end);
extern int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write);
+int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
+ unsigned long start, int len, unsigned int foll_flags,
+ struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas,
+ int *nonblocking);
int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write, int force,
struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas);