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authorChristopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com>2012-05-29 15:06:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-29 16:22:20 -0700
commit5febcbe99d4766cc383909c447e002e63d8b4592 (patch)
treedd2b87e923c982676ed07260ea7841a41098210a /mm/Kconfig
parenteb6332a54542bcd3aedb121ecb247f172b8f3602 (diff)
Cross Memory Attach: make it Kconfigurable
Add a Kconfig option to allow people who don't want cross memory attach to not have it included in their build. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -349,6 +349,16 @@ choice
benefit.
endchoice
+config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
+ bool "Cross Memory Support"
+ depends on MMU
+ default y
+ help
+ Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
+ process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
+ to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
+ See the man page for more details.
+
#
# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
#