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authorRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2011-06-07 11:49:55 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-07-21 20:41:57 +0200
commit1ac2e6ca44e13a087eb7438d284f887097ee7e84 (patch)
tree7ee4f00a67850e1e247610cefeae0ee7aa7b239a /arch/x86/kernel
parent9985c20f9e4aee6857c08246b273a3695a52b929 (diff)
x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library function
copy_from_user_nmi() is used in oprofile and perf. Moving it to other library functions like copy_from_user(). As this is x86 code for 32 and 64 bits, create a new file usercopy.c for unified code. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607172413.GJ20052@erda.amd.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c35
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index b7a010fce8c3..4ee3abf20ed6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
@@ -67,40 +66,6 @@ enum extra_reg_type {
EXTRA_REG_MAX /* number of entries needed */
};
-/*
- * best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that assumes IRQ or NMI context
- */
-static unsigned long
-copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
-{
- unsigned long offset, addr = (unsigned long)from;
- unsigned long size, len = 0;
- struct page *page;
- void *map;
- int ret;
-
- do {
- ret = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 0, &page);
- if (!ret)
- break;
-
- offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
- size = min(PAGE_SIZE - offset, n - len);
-
- map = kmap_atomic(page);
- memcpy(to, map+offset, size);
- kunmap_atomic(map);
- put_page(page);
-
- len += size;
- to += size;
- addr += size;
-
- } while (len < n);
-
- return len;
-}
-
struct event_constraint {
union {
unsigned long idxmsk[BITS_TO_LONGS(X86_PMC_IDX_MAX)];