Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Sun, 6 May 2007 21:48:54 +0000 (14:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 May 2007 19:12:51 +0000 (12:12 -0700)
commitaee16b3cee2746880e40945a9b5bff4f309cfbc4
tree887faaebf5562dc1fac5e090140da04dc7e2a174
parenteb3a1e1145ca8f12372c7c96aa0702d86a9002a9
Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range

Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to
every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure.  This is a
generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking
code in every place that a sequence of PTEs must be accessed.

Although this interface is intended to be useful in a wide range of
situations, it is currently used specifically by several Xen subsystems, for
example: to ensure that pagetables have been allocated for a virtual address
range, and to construct batched special pagetable update requests to map I/O
memory (in ioremap()).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning, unpleasantly]
Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@waste.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/memory.c