Commit 5febcbe9 authored by Christopher Yeoh's avatar Christopher Yeoh Committed by Linus Torvalds

Cross Memory Attach: make it Kconfigurable

Add a Kconfig option to allow people who don't want cross memory attach to
not have it included in their build.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent eb6332a5
......@@ -349,6 +349,16 @@ choice
benefit.
endchoice
config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
bool "Cross Memory Support"
depends on MMU
default y
help
Enabling this option adds the system calls process_vm_readv and
process_vm_writev which allow a process with the correct privileges
to directly read from or write to to another process's address space.
See the man page for more details.
#
# UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
#
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......@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@
mmu-y := nommu.o
mmu-$(CONFIG_MMU) := fremap.o highmem.o madvise.o memory.o mincore.o \
mlock.o mmap.o mprotect.o mremap.o msync.o rmap.o \
vmalloc.o pagewalk.o pgtable-generic.o \
process_vm_access.o
vmalloc.o pagewalk.o pgtable-generic.o
ifdef CONFIG_CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
mmu-$(CONFIG_MMU) += process_vm_access.o
endif
obj-y := filemap.o mempool.o oom_kill.o fadvise.o \
maccess.o page_alloc.o page-writeback.o \
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