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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@x86-64.org
Subject: [PATCH] [29/35] i386: Update  __copy_to_user_inatomic linuxdoc description
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:52:54 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070428175254.DA5DF151CA@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070428752.712152000@suse.de>


From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Explicity specify that the caller should pin the user memory
otherwise the function will sleep

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

---
 include/asm-i386/uaccess.h |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
@@ -397,7 +397,19 @@ unsigned long __must_check __copy_from_u
 unsigned long __must_check __copy_from_user_ll_nocache_nozero(void *to,
 				const void __user *from, unsigned long n);
 
-/*
+/**
+ * __copy_to_user_inatomic: - Copy a block of data into user space, with less checking.
+ * @to:   Destination address, in user space.
+ * @from: Source address, in kernel space.
+ * @n:    Number of bytes to copy.
+ *
+ * Context: User context only.
+ *
+ * Copy data from kernel space to user space.  Caller must check
+ * the specified block with access_ok() before calling this function.
+ * The caller should also make sure he pins the user space address
+ * so that the we don't result in page fault and sleep.
+ *
  * Here we special-case 1, 2 and 4-byte copy_*_user invocations.  On a fault
  * we return the initial request size (1, 2 or 4), as copy_*_user should do.
  * If a store crosses a page boundary and gets a fault, the x86 will not write

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-28 17:52 [PATCH] [0/35] Some x86 2.6.22 candidate patches for review Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [1/35] i386: revert i386-fix-the-verify_quirk_intel_irqbalance Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [2/35] x86_64: revert x86_64-mm-add-genapic_force Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [3/35] x86: revert x86_64-mm-fix-the-irqbalance-quirk-for-e7320-e7520-e7525 Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [4/35] x86_64: optimize & fix APIC mode setup Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [5/35] x86_64: always use physical delivery mode on > 8 CPUs Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [6/35] x86_64: remove clustered APIC mode Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [7/35] x86: default to physical mode on hotplug CPU kernels Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [8/35] x86_64: a memcpy that tries to reduce cache pressure Andi Kleen
2007-04-30  7:26   ` [patches] [PATCH] [8/35] x86_64: a memcpy that tries to reducecache pressure Jan Beulich
2007-04-30  9:04     ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-30 16:14       ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2007-04-30 16:25         ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [9/35] i386: adjustments to page table dump during oops (v4) Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [10/35] x86: adjust inclusion of asm/fixmap.h Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [11/35] x86_64: adjust inclusion of asm/vsyscall32.h Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [12/35] x86: consolidate smp_send_stop() Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [13/35] i386: No need to use -traditional for processing asm in i386/kernel/ Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [14/35] i386: mtrr range check correction Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [15/35] i386: pit_latch_buggy has no effect Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [16/35] i386: Add an option for the VIA C7 which sets appropriate L1 cache Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 18:08   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-28 18:28     ` Dave Jones
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [17/35] i386: probe_roms() cleanup Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [18/35] x86_64: a few missing entry.S annotations Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [19/35] i386: Add dwarf2 annotations to *_user and checksum functions Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [20/35] x86: Fix i386 and x86_64 fault information pollution Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [21/35] x86_64: Some cleanup in time.c Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [22/35] i386: i386 make NMI use PERFCTR1 for architectural perfmon (take 2) Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [23/35] x86_64: x86_64 " Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [24/35] i386: Add __init to probe_bigsmp Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [25/35] i386: Change sysenter_setup to __cpuinit & improve __INIT, __INITDATA Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [26/35] x86_64: Correct max number of CPUs in Kconfig Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [27/35] i386: Support Oprofile for AMD Family 10 CPUs Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [28/35] x86: Drop cc-options call for all options supported in gcc 3.2+ Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [30/35] i386: clean up mach_reboot_fixups Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [31/35] i386: Fix usage of -mtune when X86_GENERIC=y or CONFIG_MCORE2=y Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [32/35] x86_64: Remove unused set_seg_base Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:52 ` [PATCH] [33/35] x86_64: Remove duplicated code for reading control registers Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:53 ` [PATCH] [34/35] x86_64: fix cpu MHz reporting on constant_tsc cpus Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:53 ` [PATCH] [35/35] i386: Simplify smp_call_function*() by using common implementation Andi Kleen

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