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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>2007-05-02 19:27:06 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-05-02 19:27:06 +0200
commit6d1c426158131b11d05d66e7dd6bf91e5b1b4fc7 (patch)
treefd4c8d77edece77f9d7f22153b98dfddfc202208 /include
parentc8fdd247255a3a027cd9f66dcf93e6847d1d2f85 (diff)
[PATCH] i386: Update __copy_to_user_inatomic linuxdoc description
Explicity specify that the caller should pin the user memory otherwise the function will sleep Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-i386/uaccess.h14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h b/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
index 70829ae3ad5..e2aa5e0d0cc 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/uaccess.h
@@ -397,7 +397,19 @@ unsigned long __must_check __copy_from_user_ll_nocache(void *to,
unsigned long __must_check __copy_from_user_ll_nocache_nozero(void *to,
const void __user *from, unsigned long n);
-/*
+/**
+ * __copy_to_user_inatomic: - Copy a block of data into user space, with less checking.
+ * @to: Destination address, in user space.
+ * @from: Source address, in kernel space.
+ * @n: Number of bytes to copy.
+ *
+ * Context: User context only.
+ *
+ * Copy data from kernel space to user space. Caller must check
+ * the specified block with access_ok() before calling this function.
+ * The caller should also make sure he pins the user space address
+ * so that the we don't result in page fault and sleep.
+ *
* Here we special-case 1, 2 and 4-byte copy_*_user invocations. On a fault
* we return the initial request size (1, 2 or 4), as copy_*_user should do.
* If a store crosses a page boundary and gets a fault, the x86 will not write