mm: export follow_pte()

DAX will need to implement its own version of page_check_address().  To
avoid duplicating page table walking code, export follow_pte() which
does what we need.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479460644-25076-18-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Kara 2016-12-14 15:07:45 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a19e25536e
commit cae1240257
2 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -1210,6 +1210,8 @@ int copy_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
struct vm_area_struct *vma);
void unmap_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t const holebegin, loff_t const holelen, int even_cows);
int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pte_t **ptepp,
spinlock_t **ptlp);
int follow_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
unsigned long *pfn);
int follow_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,

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@ -3817,8 +3817,8 @@ static int __follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
return -EINVAL;
}
static inline int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
pte_t **ptepp, spinlock_t **ptlp)
int follow_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pte_t **ptepp,
spinlock_t **ptlp)
{
int res;