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| author | Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> | 2008-07-24 06:27:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-24 19:47:15 +0200 |
| commit | 28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc (patch) | |
| tree | e8f1efd05c38c1cb26ca3ee051a454eb685fd122 /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | mm: remove nopfn (diff) | |
| download | linux-28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc.tar.xz linux-28b2ee20c7cba812b6f2ccf6d722cf86d00a84dc.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 03980cb04291..b2ddfcf01728 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK select HAVE_IDE select HAVE_OPROFILE + select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT select HAVE_KPROBES select HAVE_KRETPROBES select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE |