From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: michael@ellerman.id.au
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
cel@us.ibm.com, carll@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] powerpc: fix for OProfile callgraph for Power 64 bit user apps
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 13:58:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18475.46317.936165.577835@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210810844.7603.17.camel@localhost>
Michael Ellerman writes:
> __copy_from_user_inatomic() accepts any value for n, it just has a
> special case for 1, 2, 4 and 8 - but it should still work for other
> values.
There is a bug in __copy_from_user_inatomic that
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=18418
fixes, and I'm about to send that Linus-wards.
Carl, to what extent does that fix eliminate the need for the changes
in your patch?
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-15 3:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-14 23:12 [patch 1/4] powerpc: fix for OProfile callgraph for Power 64 bit user apps akpm
2008-05-15 0:20 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-05-15 3:58 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2008-05-15 14:50 ` Carl Love
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