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-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index bf0cc762a7d..53cab10fece 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -238,6 +238,27 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages);
+/**
+ * follow_pfn - look up PFN at a user virtual address
+ * @vma: memory mapping
+ * @address: user virtual address
+ * @pfn: location to store found PFN
+ *
+ * Only IO mappings and raw PFN mappings are allowed.
+ *
+ * Returns zero and the pfn at @pfn on success, -ve otherwise.
+ */
+int follow_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+ unsigned long *pfn)
+{
+ if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ *pfn = address >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(follow_pfn);
+
DEFINE_RWLOCK(vmlist_lock);
struct vm_struct *vmlist;