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Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-i386/uaccess.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-i386/uaccess.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h b/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h index 8462f8e0e658..d0d253277be5 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h @@ -458,6 +458,12 @@ __copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n) * * If some data could not be copied, this function will pad the copied * data to the requested size using zero bytes. + * + * An alternate version - __copy_from_user_inatomic() - may be called from + * atomic context and will fail rather than sleep. In this case the + * uncopied bytes will *NOT* be padded with zeros. See fs/filemap.h + * for explanation of why this is needed. + * FIXME this isn't implimented yet EMXIF */ static __always_inline unsigned long __copy_from_user_inatomic(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n) |