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| author | David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-05-11 17:52:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-05-19 08:39:14 +0200 |
| commit | b3c395ef5556a6c60f4426cc060f5b7bdcf82d5b (patch) | |
| tree | 55e89d5396f6a42444f91973ed65884530ad45e9 /arch/x86/lib | |
| parent | 9ec23531fd48031d1b6ca5366f5f967d17a8bc28 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b3c395ef5556a6c60f4426cc060f5b7bdcf82d5b.tar.bz2 | |
mm/uaccess, mm/fault: Clarify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are enabled
In general, non-atomic variants of user access functions must not sleep
if pagefaults are disabled.
Let's update all relevant comments in uaccess code. This also reflects
the might_sleep() checks in might_fault().
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: hocko@suse.cz
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-4-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c index e2f5e21c03b3..91d93b95bd86 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c @@ -647,7 +647,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__copy_from_user_ll_nocache_nozero); * @from: Source address, in kernel space. * @n: Number of bytes to copy. * - * Context: User context only. This function may sleep. + * Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are + * enabled. * * Copy data from kernel space to user space. * @@ -668,7 +669,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(_copy_to_user); * @from: Source address, in user space. * @n: Number of bytes to copy. * - * Context: User context only. This function may sleep. + * Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are + * enabled. * * Copy data from user space to kernel space. * |