uaccess.c

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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2011, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
 * only version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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 */

/*
 * Support for user memory access from kernel.  This will
 * probably be inlined for performance at some point, but
 * for ease of debug, and to a lesser degree for code size,
 * we implement here as subroutines.
 */
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>

/*
 * For clear_user(), exploit previously defined copy_to_user function
 * and the fact that we've got a handy zero page defined in kernel/head.S
 *
 * dczero here would be even faster.
 */
__kernel_size_t __clear_user_hexagon(void __user *dest, unsigned long count)
{
    long uncleared;

    while (count > PAGE_SIZE) {
        uncleared = __copy_to_user_hexagon(dest, &empty_zero_page,
                        PAGE_SIZE);
        if (uncleared)
            return count - (PAGE_SIZE - uncleared);
        count -= PAGE_SIZE;
        dest += PAGE_SIZE;
    }
    if (count)
        count = __copy_to_user_hexagon(dest, &empty_zero_page, count);

    return count;
}

unsigned long clear_user_hexagon(void __user *dest, unsigned long count)
{
    if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, dest, count))
        return count;
    else
        return __clear_user_hexagon(dest, count);
}