[PATCH] add vm_insert_pfn()

Add a vm_insert_pfn helper, so that ->fault handlers can have nopfn
functionality by installing their own pte and returning NULL.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 77a7610..903f3b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1124,6 +1124,8 @@ unsigned long vmalloc_to_pfn(void *addr);
 int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr,
 			unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, pgprot_t);
 int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, struct page *);
+int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+			unsigned long pfn);
 
 struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long address,
 			unsigned int foll_flags);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 072c113..8b8f0d2 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1277,6 +1277,51 @@ int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, struct page *
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_insert_page);
 
+/**
+ * vm_insert_pfn - insert single pfn into user vma
+ * @vma: user vma to map to
+ * @addr: target user address of this page
+ * @pfn: source kernel pfn
+ *
+ * Similar to vm_inert_page, this allows drivers to insert individual pages
+ * they've allocated into a user vma. Same comments apply.
+ *
+ * This function should only be called from a vm_ops->fault handler, and
+ * in that case the handler should return NULL.
+ */
+int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+		unsigned long pfn)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+	int retval;
+	pte_t *pte, entry;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+
+	BUG_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP));
+	BUG_ON(is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags));
+
+	retval = -ENOMEM;
+	pte = get_locked_pte(mm, addr, &ptl);
+	if (!pte)
+		goto out;
+	retval = -EBUSY;
+	if (!pte_none(*pte))
+		goto out_unlock;
+
+	/* Ok, finally just insert the thing.. */
+	entry = pfn_pte(pfn, vma->vm_page_prot);
+	set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, entry);
+	update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, entry);
+
+	retval = 0;
+out_unlock:
+	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+
+out:
+	return retval;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_insert_pfn);
+
 /*
  * maps a range of physical memory into the requested pages. the old
  * mappings are removed. any references to nonexistent pages results