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authorDominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-10-23 12:07:44 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2014-10-27 13:27:24 +0100
commit593befa6ab74a805e4f503c8c737c3cffa8066b6 (patch)
treecc8765c8ae5a8b26b0a618a93a6d13b4f73a1b56 /include/linux/mm.h
parenta13cff318cafbd493b8d5d679e5f3f761084c4fe (diff)
mm: introduce mm_forbids_zeropage function
Add a new function stub to allow architectures to disable for an mm_structthe backing of non-present, anonymous pages with read-only empty zero pages. Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 27eb1bfbe704..ab7dadca4ea5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -56,6 +56,17 @@ extern int sysctl_legacy_va_layout;
#define __pa_symbol(x) __pa(RELOC_HIDE((unsigned long)(x), 0))
#endif
+/*
+ * To prevent common memory management code establishing
+ * a zero page mapping on a read fault.
+ * This macro should be defined within <asm/pgtable.h>.
+ * s390 does this to prevent multiplexing of hardware bits
+ * related to the physical page in case of virtualization.
+ */
+#ifndef mm_forbids_zeropage
+#define mm_forbids_zeropage(X) (0)
+#endif
+
extern unsigned long sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes;
extern unsigned long sysctl_admin_reserve_kbytes;