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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-06-15 03:02:23 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-06-15 03:02:23 -0700
commit9cbc1cb8cd46ce1f7645b9de249b2ce8460129bb (patch)
tree8d104ec2a459346b99413b0b77421ca7b9936c1a /include/asm-generic/uaccess-unaligned.h
parentca44d6e60f9de26281fda203f58b570e1748c015 (diff)
parent45e3e1935e2857c54783291107d33323b3ef33c8 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c net/core/drop_monitor.c net/core/net-traces.c
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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 */