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| author | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-06-01 12:42:12 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> | 2010-06-01 12:42:12 +0200 |
| commit | b4ca761577535b2b4d153689ee97342797dfff05 (patch) | |
| tree | 29054d55508f1faa22ec32acf7c245751af03348 /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | 28f4197e5d4707311febeec8a0eb97cb5fd93c97 (diff) | |
| parent | 67a3e12b05e055c0415c556a315a3d3eb637e29e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-linus
Conflicts:
fs/pipe.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 833952d8b74..119b7ccdf39 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1227,8 +1227,17 @@ int zap_vma_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zap_vma_ptes); -/* - * Do a quick page-table lookup for a single page. +/** + * follow_page - look up a page descriptor from a user-virtual address + * @vma: vm_area_struct mapping @address + * @address: virtual address to look up + * @flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour + * + * @flags can have FOLL_ flags set, defined in <linux/mm.h> + * + * Returns the mapped (struct page *), %NULL if no mapping exists, or + * an error pointer if there is a mapping to something not represented + * by a page descriptor (see also vm_normal_page()). */ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, unsigned int flags) |