access_process_vm device memory infrastructure

In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using
the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory
through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.

This patch:

Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place
to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.

[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
index 24c1d3c30186..016f335bbeea 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
@@ -330,6 +330,14 @@ static void __iomem *ioremap_default(resource_size_t phys_addr,
         return (void __iomem *)ret;
 }
 
+void __iomem *ioremap_prot(resource_size_t phys_addr, unsigned long size,
+                                unsigned long prot_val)
+{
+        return __ioremap_caller(phys_addr, size, (prot_val & _PAGE_CACHE_MASK),
+                                __builtin_return_address(0));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioremap_prot);
+
 /**
  * iounmap - Free a IO remapping
  * @addr: virtual address from ioremap_*