[PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pages

Currently, get_user_pages() returns fully coherent pages to the kernel for
anything other than anonymous pages.  This is a problem for things like
fuse and the SCSI generic ioctl SG_IO which can potentially wish to do DMA
to anonymous pages passed in by users.

The fix is to add a new memory management API: flush_anon_page() which
is used in get_user_pages() to make anonymous pages coherent.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index 6bece9280eb7..7bd2593dbef9 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
 
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 
+#ifndef ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ANON_PAGE
+static inline void flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 
 #include <asm/highmem.h>