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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-13 05:15:51 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-13 05:15:51 +0400
commitcd166bd0dde265a97dd9aa8e3451a2646d96d04b (patch)
tree3a7fb5b8bb8d7676e804845b75977be380b8dcff /include/asm-generic/uaccess-unaligned.h
parent6b702462cbe5b6f372966a53f4465d745d86b65c (diff)
parent5b02ee3d219f9e01b6e9146e25613822cfc2e5ce (diff)
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: add generic lib/checksum.c asm-generic: add a generic uaccess.h asm-generic: add generic NOMMU versions of some headers asm-generic: add generic atomic.h and io.h asm-generic: add legacy I/O header files asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers asm-generic: make bitops.h usable asm-generic: make pci.h usable directly asm-generic: make get_rtc_time overridable asm-generic: rename page.h and uaccess.h asm-generic: rename atomic.h to atomic-long.h asm-generic: add a generic unistd.h asm-generic: add generic ABI headers asm-generic: add generic sysv ipc headers asm-generic: introduce asm/bitsperlong.h asm-generic: rename termios.h, signal.h and mman.h
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+#ifndef __ASM_GENERIC_UACCESS_UNALIGNED_H
+#define __ASM_GENERIC_UACCESS_UNALIGNED_H
+
+/*
+ * This macro should be used instead of __get_user() when accessing
+ * values at locations that are not known to be aligned.
+ */
+#define __get_user_unaligned(x, ptr) \
+({ \
+ __typeof__ (*(ptr)) __x; \
+ __copy_from_user(&__x, (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr))) ? -EFAULT : 0; \
+ (x) = __x; \
+})
+
+
+/*
+ * This macro should be used instead of __put_user() when accessing
+ * values at locations that are not known to be aligned.
+ */
+#define __put_user_unaligned(x, ptr) \
+({ \
+ __typeof__ (*(ptr)) __x = (x); \
+ __copy_to_user((ptr), &__x, sizeof(*(ptr))) ? -EFAULT : 0; \
+})
+
+#endif /* __ASM_GENERIC_UACCESS_UNALIGNED_H */