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| author | Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com> | 2012-05-30 00:06:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-05-30 01:22:20 +0200 |
| commit | 5febcbe99d4766cc383909c447e002e63d8b4592 (patch) | |
| tree | dd2b87e923c982676ed07260ea7841a41098210a /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | Documentation: memcg: future proof hierarchical statistics documentation (diff) | |
| download | linux-5febcbe99d4766cc383909c447e002e63d8b4592.tar.xz linux-5febcbe99d4766cc383909c447e002e63d8b4592.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 10 |
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 # |