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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
| commit | e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch) | |
| tree | ccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c | |
| parent | 61282f37927143e45b03153f3e7b48d6b702147a (diff) | |
| parent | 0034102808e0dbbf3a2394b82b1bb40b5778de9e (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches
that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c b/arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c index 4763b3aff1c..37440caa737 100644 --- a/arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c +++ b/arch/tile/lib/memcpy_user_64.c @@ -14,7 +14,13 @@ * Do memcpy(), but trap and return "n" when a load or store faults. * * Note: this idiom only works when memcpy() compiles to a leaf function. - * If "sp" is updated during memcpy, the "jrp lr" will be incorrect. + * Here leaf function not only means it does not have calls, but also + * requires no stack operations (sp, stack frame pointer) and no + * use of callee-saved registers, else "jrp lr" will be incorrect since + * unwinding stack frame is bypassed. Since memcpy() is not complex so + * these conditions are satisfied here, but we need to be careful when + * modifying this file. This is not a clean solution but is the best + * one so far. * * Also note that we are capturing "n" from the containing scope here. */ |