Cross Memory Attach: make it Kconfigurable

Add a Kconfig option to allow people who don't want cross memory attach to
not have it included in their build.

Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 39220026c797..b2176374b98e 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -349,6 +349,16 @@ choice
           benefit.
 endchoice
 
+config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
+        bool "Cross Memory Support"
+        depends on MMU
+        default y
+        help
+          Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
+          process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
+          to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
+          See the man page for more details.
+
 #
 # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
 #