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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-08-04 11:09:27 +0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-08-04 11:09:27 +0400
commitd7619fe39d9769b4d4545cc511c891deea18ae08 (patch)
tree0a902533414001075b2245825e145cc2e35ce985 /arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
parent9ea71503a8ed9184d2d0b8ccc4d269d05f7940ae (diff)
parented8f37370d83e695c0a4fa5d5fc7a83ecb947526 (diff)
downloadlinux-d7619fe39d9769b4d4545cc511c891deea18ae08.tar.xz
Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent
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+/*
+ * User address space access functions.
+ *
+ * For licencing details see kernel-base/COPYING
+ */
+
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/*
+ * best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that is NMI-safe
+ */
+unsigned long
+copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
+{
+ unsigned long offset, addr = (unsigned long)from;
+ unsigned long size, len = 0;
+ struct page *page;
+ void *map;
+ int ret;
+
+ do {
+ ret = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 0, &page);
+ if (!ret)
+ break;
+
+ offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+ size = min(PAGE_SIZE - offset, n - len);
+
+ map = kmap_atomic(page);
+ memcpy(to, map+offset, size);
+ kunmap_atomic(map);
+ put_page(page);
+
+ len += size;
+ to += size;
+ addr += size;
+
+ } while (len < n);
+
+ return len;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);