Re: [PATCH] using get/put_user64 apis on 64bit machine

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 15:46 +0530, Bharat Bhushan wrote:
> On powerpc64 machine get/put_user64() is same as get/put_user() while
> on powerpc32 machine get_user64 is different. With this patch we can
> use get_user64() and put_user64() on 32 and 64 bit machines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
> ---

There appear to be no user of any of these APIs in the tree. There's
also no get_user64 -> __get_user64() macros either. Why not just remove
the whole lot ?

Cheers,
Ben.

>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> index 17bb40c..01743aa 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
> @@ -114,10 +114,17 @@ struct exception_table_entry {
>  #define __put_user(x, ptr) \
>  	__put_user_nocheck((__typeof__(*(ptr)))(x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr)))
>  
> +/*
> + * On powerpc64 machine get/put_user64() is same as get/put_user() while
> + * on powerpc32 machine get_user64 is different.
> + */
>  #ifndef __powerpc64__
>  #define __get_user64(x, ptr) \
>  	__get_user64_nocheck((x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr)))
>  #define __put_user64(x, ptr) __put_user(x, ptr)
> +#else
> +#define __get_user64(x, ptr) __get_user(x, ptr) 
> +#define __put_user64(x, ptr) __put_user(x, ptr)
>  #endif
>  
>  #define __get_user_inatomic(x, ptr) \