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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-07 13:47:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-07 13:47:45 +0200 |
| commit | 93776a8ec746cf9d32c36e5a5b23d28d8be28826 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c472ae9f709246ee5268e1d71559d07839fb965 /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 34886c8bc590f078d4c0b88f50d061326639198d (diff) | |
| parent | d508afb437daee7cf07da085b635c44a4ebf9b38 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: update to upstream tracing facilities
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 46 |
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 37eaccdf305..2599e83eea1 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/err.h> #include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/tracepoint.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> /** @@ -70,6 +71,36 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup); /** + * memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space + * + * @src: source address in user space + * @len: number of bytes to copy + * + * Returns an ERR_PTR() on failure. + */ +void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len) +{ + void *p; + + /* + * Always use GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() can sleep and + * cause pagefault, which makes it pointless to use GFP_NOFS + * or GFP_ATOMIC. + */ + p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + + if (copy_from_user(p, src, len)) { + kfree(p); + return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); + } + + return p; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memdup_user); + +/** * __krealloc - like krealloc() but don't free @p. * @p: object to reallocate memory for. * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required. @@ -206,3 +237,18 @@ int __attribute__((weak)) get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast); + +/* Tracepoints definitions. */ +DEFINE_TRACE(kmalloc); +DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_alloc); +DEFINE_TRACE(kmalloc_node); +DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_alloc_node); +DEFINE_TRACE(kfree); +DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_free); + +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_node); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kfree); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free); |