vmx-helper.c

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/*
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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 *
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 *
 * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2011
 *
 * Authors: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 *          Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
 */
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
#include <asm/switch_to.h>

int enter_vmx_usercopy(void)
{
    if (in_interrupt())
        return 0;

    /* This acts as preempt_disable() as well and will make
     * enable_kernel_altivec(). We need to disable page faults
     * as they can call schedule and thus make us lose the VMX
     * context. So on page faults, we just fail which will cause
     * a fallback to the normal non-vmx copy.
     */
    pagefault_disable();

    enable_kernel_altivec();

    return 1;
}

/*
 * This function must return 0 because we tail call optimise when calling
 * from __copy_tofrom_user_power7 which returns 0 on success.
 */
int exit_vmx_usercopy(void)
{
    pagefault_enable();
    return 0;
}

int enter_vmx_copy(void)
{
    if (in_interrupt())
        return 0;

    preempt_disable();

    enable_kernel_altivec();

    return 1;
}

/*
 * All calls to this function will be optimised into tail calls. We are
 * passed a pointer to the destination which we return as required by a
 * memcpy implementation.
 */
void *exit_vmx_copy(void *dest)
{
    preempt_enable();
    return dest;
}