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.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++
mm/memory.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index e5a014be8932..133fabe4bb4c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1224,6 +1224,8 @@ 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,
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 8c8cb7f2133e..e7a4a30a5e88 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3763,8 +3763,8 @@ out:
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;
--
2.6.6
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