tree 828e7483093d94529b107be22468da1e2b7f42e7
parent 270b79338eb1bd1eb28e62994ffa7b9ecd9975d8
author David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> 1418914095 +0000
committer David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> 1422453783 +0000

mm: provide a find_special_page vma operation

The optional find_special_page VMA operation is used to lookup the
pages backing a VMA.  This is useful in cases where the normal
mechanisms for finding the page don't work.  This is only called if
the PTE is special.

One use case is a Xen PV guest mapping foreign pages into userspace.

In a Xen PV guest, the PTEs contain MFNs so get_user_pages() (for
example) must do an MFN to PFN (M2P) lookup before it can get the
page.  For foreign pages (those owned by another guest) the M2P lookup
returns the PFN as seen by the foreign guest (which would be
completely the wrong page for the local guest).

This cannot be fixed up improving the M2P lookup since one MFN may be
mapped onto two or more pages so getting the right page is impossible
given just the MFN.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>