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Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range

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Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to
every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure.  This is a
generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking
code in every place that a sequence of PTEs must be accessed.

Although this interface is intended to be useful in a wide range of
situations, it is currently used specifically by several Xen subsystems, for
example: to ensure that pagetables have been allocated for a virtual address
range, and to construct batched special pagetable update requests to map I/O
memory (in ioremap()).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning, unpleasantly]
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@waste.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2007-05-06 14:48:54 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -1130,6 +1130,11 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long address,
#define FOLL_GET 0x04 /* do get_page on page */
#define FOLL_ANON 0x08 /* give ZERO_PAGE if no pgtable */
typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, struct page *pmd_page, unsigned long addr,
void *data);
extern int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
unsigned long size, pte_fn_t fn, void *data);
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
void vm_stat_account(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long, struct file *, long);
#else