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authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2011-07-25 13:59:46 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2011-07-25 14:53:52 -0400
commit5f00bcb38ef9a980a33c6dbdc0044964b05f22dd (patch)
tree3175fb9375aecb50bde1be0bf4fa8aa8155131d6 /arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
parent34006cee28f7344f9557a4be3816c7891b1bbab1 (diff)
parentb6844e8f64920cdee620157252169ba63afb0c89 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into devel and apply fixup from Stephen Rothwell:
vfs/nfs: fixup for nfs_open_context change Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
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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);