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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-30 19:36:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-07-30 19:36:55 +0200 |
| commit | bc588df79ebfb710abc27342fccf336a68ed1216 (patch) | |
| tree | e50e125eaa6da83fa715704e53c1bde013d1ef8e /Documentation/filesystems/Locking | |
| parent | bce7f793daec3e65ec5c5705d2457b81fe7b5725 (diff) | |
| parent | 15dd859cacf312f606f54502d1f66537a1e5c78c (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86/core' into x86/xsave
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/Locking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 8b22d7d8b99..680fb566b92 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. + ================================================================================ Dubious stuff |