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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-06 09:02:57 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-04-06 09:02:57 +0200
commitf541ae326fa120fa5c57433e4d9a133df212ce41 (patch)
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Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2
Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream Conflicts: arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c arch/x86/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c include/linux/sched.h kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/include/linux/memory.h b/include/linux/memory.h
index 3fdc10806d31..37fa19b34ef5 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory.h
@@ -99,4 +99,21 @@ enum mem_add_context { BOOT, HOTPLUG };
#define hotplug_memory_notifier(fn, pri) do { } while (0)
#endif
+/*
+ * 'struct memory_accessor' is a generic interface to provide
+ * in-kernel access to persistent memory such as i2c or SPI EEPROMs
+ */
+struct memory_accessor {
+ ssize_t (*read)(struct memory_accessor *, char *buf, off_t offset,
+ size_t count);
+ ssize_t (*write)(struct memory_accessor *, const char *buf,
+ off_t offset, size_t count);
+};
+
+/*
+ * Kernel text modification mutex, used for code patching. Users of this lock
+ * can sleep.
+ */
+extern struct mutex text_mutex;
+
#endif /* _LINUX_MEMORY_H_ */