From f872f5400cc01373d8e29d9c7a5296ccfaf4ccf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:12:19 -0800 Subject: mm: Add a vm_special_mapping.fault() method Requiring special mappings to give a list of struct pages is inflexible: it prevents sane use of IO memory in a special mapping, it's inefficient (it requires arch code to initialize a list of struct pages, and it requires the mm core to walk the entire list just to figure out how long it is), and it prevents arch code from doing anything fancy when a special mapping fault occurs. Add a .fault method as an alternative to filling in a .pages array. Looks-OK-to: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Quentin Casasnovas Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a26d1677c0bc7e774c33f469451a78ca31e9e6af.1451446564.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- mm/mmap.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mmap.c') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 2ce04a649f6b..f717453b1a57 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -3030,11 +3030,16 @@ static int special_mapping_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgoff_t pgoff; struct page **pages; - if (vma->vm_ops == &legacy_special_mapping_vmops) + if (vma->vm_ops == &legacy_special_mapping_vmops) { pages = vma->vm_private_data; - else - pages = ((struct vm_special_mapping *)vma->vm_private_data)-> - pages; + } else { + struct vm_special_mapping *sm = vma->vm_private_data; + + if (sm->fault) + return sm->fault(sm, vma, vmf); + + pages = sm->pages; + } for (pgoff = vmf->pgoff; pgoff && *pages; ++pages) pgoff--; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522