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authorDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>2014-12-18 14:48:15 +0000
committerDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>2015-01-28 14:03:03 +0000
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mm: provide a find_special_page vma operation
The optional find_special_page VMA operation is used to lookup the pages backing a VMA. This is useful in cases where the normal mechanisms for finding the page don't work. This is only called if the PTE is special. One use case is a Xen PV guest mapping foreign pages into userspace. In a Xen PV guest, the PTEs contain MFNs so get_user_pages() (for example) must do an MFN to PFN (M2P) lookup before it can get the page. For foreign pages (those owned by another guest) the M2P lookup returns the PFN as seen by the foreign guest (which would be completely the wrong page for the local guest). This cannot be fixed up improving the M2P lookup since one MFN may be mapped onto two or more pages so getting the right page is impossible given just the MFN. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
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diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 54f3a9b00956..dc2e01a315e2 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -754,6 +754,8 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
if (HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL) {
if (likely(!pte_special(pte)))
goto check_pfn;
+ if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->find_special_page)
+ return vma->vm_ops->find_special_page(vma, addr);
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP))
return NULL;
if (!is_zero_pfn(pfn))