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authorGlauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>2008-06-25 14:43:30 -0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-09 09:14:27 +0200
commit8cb834e99f44bd56409b794504ae2b170675fc92 (patch)
tree32cacbbad4c5948d55068cc948ed4d7c8d27d722 /include/asm-x86/uaccess.h
parente30a44fdbf11c7ca3a0096d71790f176a4a09e03 (diff)
x86: move __get_user and __put_user into uaccess.h.
We also carry the unaligned version with us. Only x86_64 uses it, but there's no problem in defining it. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86/uaccess.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/uaccess.h47
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/uaccess.h b/include/asm-x86/uaccess.h
index 3a9092af5af..7c7b46af636 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/uaccess.h
@@ -383,7 +383,54 @@ struct __large_struct { unsigned long buf[100]; };
_ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 3b) \
: "=r"(err) \
: ltype(x), "m" (__m(addr)), "i" (errret), "0" (err))
+/**
+ * __get_user: - Get a simple variable from user space, with less checking.
+ * @x: Variable to store result.
+ * @ptr: Source address, in user space.
+ *
+ * Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
+ *
+ * This macro copies a single simple variable from user space to kernel
+ * space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger
+ * data types like structures or arrays.
+ *
+ * @ptr must have pointer-to-simple-variable type, and the result of
+ * dereferencing @ptr must be assignable to @x without a cast.
+ *
+ * Caller must check the pointer with access_ok() before calling this
+ * function.
+ *
+ * Returns zero on success, or -EFAULT on error.
+ * On error, the variable @x is set to zero.
+ */
+
+#define __get_user(x, ptr) \
+ __get_user_nocheck((x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr)))
+/**
+ * __put_user: - Write a simple value into user space, with less checking.
+ * @x: Value to copy to user space.
+ * @ptr: Destination address, in user space.
+ *
+ * Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
+ *
+ * This macro copies a single simple value from kernel space to user
+ * space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger
+ * data types like structures or arrays.
+ *
+ * @ptr must have pointer-to-simple-variable type, and @x must be assignable
+ * to the result of dereferencing @ptr.
+ *
+ * Caller must check the pointer with access_ok() before calling this
+ * function.
+ *
+ * Returns zero on success, or -EFAULT on error.
+ */
+
+#define __put_user(x, ptr) \
+ __put_user_nocheck((__typeof__(*(ptr)))(x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr)))
+#define __get_user_unaligned __get_user
+#define __put_user_unaligned __put_user
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
# include "uaccess_32.h"