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Roland McGrath authored
This patch adds a utility function install_special_mapping, for creating a special vma using a fixed set of preallocated pages as backing, such as for a vDSO. This consolidates some nearly identical code used for vDSO mapping reimplemented for different architectures. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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