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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 4b5200f5f35a..a8430ff13837 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1423,9 +1423,40 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, return __get_user_pages(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, flags, pages, vmas); } - EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages); +/** + * get_dump_page() - pin user page in memory while writing it to core dump + * @addr: user address + * + * Returns struct page pointer of user page pinned for dump, + * to be freed afterwards by page_cache_release() or put_page(). + * + * Returns NULL on any kind of failure - a hole must then be inserted into + * the corefile, to preserve alignment with its headers; and also returns + * NULL wherever the ZERO_PAGE, or an anonymous pte_none, has been found - + * allowing a hole to be left in the corefile to save diskspace. + * + * Called without mmap_sem, but after all other threads have been killed. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_ELF_CORE +struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr) +{ + struct vm_area_struct *vma; + struct page *page; + + if (__get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, 1, + GUP_FLAGS_FORCE, &page, &vma) < 1) + return NULL; + if (page == ZERO_PAGE(0)) { + page_cache_release(page); + return NULL; + } + flush_cache_page(vma, addr, page_to_pfn(page)); + return page; +} +#endif /* CONFIG_ELF_CORE */ + pte_t *get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptl) { |