From b3c395ef5556a6c60f4426cc060f5b7bdcf82d5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Hildenbrand Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 17:52:08 +0200 Subject: mm/uaccess, mm/fault: Clarify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are enabled In general, non-atomic variants of user access functions must not sleep if pagefaults are disabled. Let's update all relevant comments in uaccess code. This also reflects the might_sleep() checks in might_fault(). Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: airlied@linux.ie Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: hocko@suse.cz Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: mst@redhat.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-4-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/avr32') diff --git a/arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h b/arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h index a46f7cf..68cf638 100644 --- a/arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h +++ b/arch/avr32/include/asm/uaccess.h @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ static inline __kernel_size_t __copy_from_user(void *to, * @x: Value to copy to user space. * @ptr: Destination address, in user space. * - * Context: User context only. This function may sleep. + * Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are + * enabled. * * This macro copies a single simple value from kernel space to user * space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger @@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ static inline __kernel_size_t __copy_from_user(void *to, * @x: Variable to store result. * @ptr: Source address, in user space. * - * Context: User context only. This function may sleep. + * Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are + * enabled. * * This macro copies a single simple variable from user space to kernel * space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger @@ -136,7 +138,8 @@ static inline __kernel_size_t __copy_from_user(void *to, * @x: Value to copy to user space. * @ptr: Destination address, in user space. * - * Context: User context only. This function may sleep. + * Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are + * enabled. * * This macro copies a single simple value from kernel space to user * space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger @@ -158,7 +161,8 @@ static inline __kernel_size_t __copy_from_user(void *to, * @x: Variable to store result. * @ptr: Source address, in user space. * - * Context: User context only. This function may sleep. + * Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are + * enabled. * * This macro copies a single simple variable from user space to kernel * space. It supports simple types like char and int, but not larger -- cgit v1.1