access_process_vm device memory infrastructure

In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using
the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory
through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem.

This patch:

Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place
to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory.

[riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Rik van Riel
2008-07-23 21:27:05 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0d71d10a42
commit 28b2ee20c7
8 changed files with 144 additions and 18 deletions
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
select HAVE_IDE
select HAVE_OPROFILE
select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
select HAVE_KPROBES
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE