From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: ptrace and pfn mappings
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:42:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160484135.6177.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010123128.GA23775@infradead.org>
> I think the best idea is to add a new ->access method to the vm_operations
> that's called by access_process_vm() when it exists and VM_IO or VM_PFNMAP
> are set. ->access would take the required object locks and copy out the
> data manually. This should work both for spufs and drm.
Another option is to have access_process_vm() lookup the PTE and lock it
while copying the data from the page.
something like
- lookup pte & lock
- check if pte still present
- copy data to temp kernel buffer
- unlock pte
- copy data to user buffer
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-09 16:12 [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed fault handlers Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 16:12 ` [patch 1/5] mm: fault vs invalidate/truncate check Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 16:12 ` [patch 2/5] mm: fault vs invalidate/truncate race fix Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 21:10 ` Mark Fasheh
2006-10-10 1:10 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-11 18:34 ` Mark Fasheh
2006-10-12 3:28 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 16:12 ` [patch 3/5] mm: fault handler to replace nopage and populate Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 16:12 ` [patch 4/5] mm: add vm_insert_pfn helpler Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 21:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 0:42 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 1:11 ` faults and signals Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 1:20 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 1:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 2:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 2:04 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 2:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 1:16 ` ptrace and pfn mappings Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 2:23 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 2:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 2:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 3:03 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 3:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 2:58 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 3:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 3:46 ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-10 4:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 12:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-10-10 12:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-10-10 18:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-10-09 16:13 ` [patch 5/5] mm: merge nopfn with fault handler Nick Piggin
2006-10-09 20:57 ` [rfc] 2.6.19-rc1-git5: consolidation of file backed fault handlers Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-09 21:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-10 0:53 ` Nick Piggin
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