From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763316AbYEOR42 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763154AbYEOR4E (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:04 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50215 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763139AbYEOR4B (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 May 2008 13:56:01 -0400 Message-Id: <20080515175357.636334082@redhat.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:53:57 -0400 From: Rik van Riel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, ajackson@redhat.com, airlied@redhat.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: [patch 0/5] access_process_vm device memory access Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Changelog: - use CONFIG_HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT - do not use generic_access_phys as a fallback but define it in the ->vm_ops->access for appropriate VMAs - other code cleanups suggested by Andrew Morton and Sam Ravnborg -- All Rights Reversed