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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/char_dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/char_dev.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c index 3483d3c..0009346 100644 --- a/fs/char_dev.c +++ b/fs/char_dev.c @@ -19,11 +19,30 @@ #include <linux/kobj_map.h> #include <linux/cdev.h> #include <linux/mutex.h> +#include <linux/backing-dev.h> #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD #include <linux/kmod.h> #endif +/* + * capabilities for /dev/mem, /dev/kmem and similar directly mappable character + * devices + * - permits shared-mmap for read, write and/or exec + * - does not permit private mmap in NOMMU mode (can't do COW) + * - no readahead or I/O queue unplugging required + */ +struct backing_dev_info directly_mappable_cdev_bdi = { + .capabilities = ( +#ifdef CONFIG_MMU + /* permit private copies of the data to be taken */ + BDI_CAP_MAP_COPY | +#endif + /* permit direct mmap, for read, write or exec */ + BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT | + BDI_CAP_READ_MAP | BDI_CAP_WRITE_MAP | BDI_CAP_EXEC_MAP), +}; + static struct kobj_map *cdev_map; static DEFINE_MUTEX(chrdevs_lock); @@ -461,3 +480,4 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_del); EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_add); EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_chrdev); EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_chrdev); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(directly_mappable_cdev_bdi); |
