export __get_user_pages_fast() function
authorXiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:08:57 +0000 (19:08 +0800)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Sun, 24 Oct 2010 08:51:24 +0000 (10:51 +0200)
This function is used by KVM to pin process's page in the atomic context.

Define the 'weak' function to avoid other architecture not support it

Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
mm/util.c

index 4735ea4..73dac81 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -245,6 +245,19 @@ void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm)
 }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Like get_user_pages_fast() except its IRQ-safe in that it won't fall
+ * back to the regular GUP.
+ * If the architecture not support this fucntion, simply return with no
+ * page pinned
+ */
+int __attribute__((weak)) __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start,
+                                int nr_pages, int write, struct page **pages)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__get_user_pages_fast);
+
 /**
  * get_user_pages_fast() - pin user pages in memory
  * @start:     starting user address