From: Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cross Memory Attach v3
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:32:07 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110725163207.27336094@lilo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110721145433.a77818b2.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:54:33 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a
> > destination process, given an address and size from a source
> > process, to copy memory directly from the source process into its
> > own address space via a system call. There is also a symmetrical
> > ability to copy from the current process's address space into a
> > destination process's address space.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h | 2
> > arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h | 4
> > arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h | 4
> > arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S | 2
> > fs/aio.c | 4
> > fs/compat.c | 7
> > fs/read_write.c | 8
> > include/linux/compat.h | 3
> > include/linux/fs.h | 7
> > include/linux/syscalls.h | 13 +
> > mm/Makefile | 3
> > mm/process_vm_access.c | 446
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > security/keys/compat.c | 2
> > security/keys/keyctl.c | 2 14 files changed, 490
> > insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> Confused. Why no arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h wire-up?
I forgot. Have done this now as well as the 32-bit compat and am
retesting....
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-25 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-18 15:05 Cross Memory Attach v3 Christopher Yeoh
2011-07-21 21:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-25 7:02 ` Christopher Yeoh [this message]
2011-07-21 22:09 ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-25 7:11 ` Christopher Yeoh
2011-08-04 3:54 ` Cross Memory Attach v3 (includes updated patch based on v4) Christopher Yeoh
2011-11-20 10:16 ` Cross Memory Attach v3 Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-11-21 0:13 ` Christopher Yeoh
2011-12-04 14:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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