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author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2007-05-06 17:48:54 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-07 15:12:51 -0400 |
commit | aee16b3cee2746880e40945a9b5bff4f309cfbc4 (patch) | |
tree | 887faaebf5562dc1fac5e090140da04dc7e2a174 /kernel/sched.c | |
parent | eb3a1e1145ca8f12372c7c96aa0702d86a9002a9 (diff) |
Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range
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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