mm: introduce follow_pte()

A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space and an
address from it to a pte.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Weiner 2009-06-16 15:32:33 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e9bb35df6f
commit f8ad0f499f
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@ -3103,6 +3103,43 @@ int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long addr)
#endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA */
static int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
pte_t **ptepp, spinlock_t **ptlp)
{
pgd_t *pgd;
pud_t *pud;
pmd_t *pmd;
pte_t *ptep;
pgd = pgd_offset(mm, address);
if (pgd_none(*pgd) || unlikely(pgd_bad(*pgd)))
goto out;
pud = pud_offset(pgd, address);
if (pud_none(*pud) || unlikely(pud_bad(*pud)))
goto out;
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address);
if (pmd_none(*pmd) || unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd)))
goto out;
/* We cannot handle huge page PFN maps. Luckily they don't exist. */
if (pmd_huge(*pmd))
goto out;
ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, ptlp);
if (!ptep)
goto out;
if (!pte_present(*ptep))
goto unlock;
*ptepp = ptep;
return 0;
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, *ptlp);
out:
return -EINVAL;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
int follow_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, unsigned int flags,