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-rw-r--r--include/asm-i386/uaccess.h6
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diff --git a/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h b/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
index 8462f8e0e65..d0d253277be 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
@@ -458,6 +458,12 @@ __copy_to_user(void __user *to, const void *from, unsigned long n)
*
* If some data could not be copied, this function will pad the copied
* data to the requested size using zero bytes.
+ *
+ * An alternate version - __copy_from_user_inatomic() - may be called from
+ * atomic context and will fail rather than sleep. In this case the
+ * uncopied bytes will *NOT* be padded with zeros. See fs/filemap.h
+ * for explanation of why this is needed.
+ * FIXME this isn't implimented yet EMXIF
*/
static __always_inline unsigned long
__copy_from_user_inatomic(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)