linux/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
Robert Richter 1ac2e6ca44 x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library function
copy_from_user_nmi() is used in oprofile and perf. Moving it to other
library functions like copy_from_user(). As this is x86 code for 32
and 64 bits, create a new file usercopy.c for unified code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607172413.GJ20052@erda.amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 20:41:57 +02:00

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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);