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vmx-helper.c
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16  * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2011
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18  * Authors: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <[email protected]>
19  * Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
20  */
21 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
22 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
23 #include <asm/switch_to.h>
24 
26 {
27  if (in_interrupt())
28  return 0;
29 
30  /* This acts as preempt_disable() as well and will make
31  * enable_kernel_altivec(). We need to disable page faults
32  * as they can call schedule and thus make us lose the VMX
33  * context. So on page faults, we just fail which will cause
34  * a fallback to the normal non-vmx copy.
35  */
36  pagefault_disable();
37 
39 
40  return 1;
41 }
42 
43 /*
44  * This function must return 0 because we tail call optimise when calling
45  * from __copy_tofrom_user_power7 which returns 0 on success.
46  */
48 {
49  pagefault_enable();
50  return 0;
51 }
52 
53 int enter_vmx_copy(void)
54 {
55  if (in_interrupt())
56  return 0;
57 
59 
61 
62  return 1;
63 }
64 
65 /*
66  * All calls to this function will be optimised into tail calls. We are
67  * passed a pointer to the destination which we return as required by a
68  * memcpy implementation.
69  */
70 void *exit_vmx_copy(void *dest)
71 {
73  return dest;
74 }