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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/oprofile/backtrace.c b/arch/x86/oprofile/backtrace.c
index 32f78eb..bff89df 100644
--- a/arch/x86/oprofile/backtrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/backtrace.c
@@ -12,10 +12,9 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
-#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/ptrace.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/stacktrace.h>
static int backtrace_stack(void *data, char *name)
@@ -38,42 +37,6 @@
.walk_stack = print_context_stack,
};
-/* from arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c: */
-
-/*
- * 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;
-}
-
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
static struct stack_frame_ia32 *
dump_user_backtrace_32(struct stack_frame_ia32 *head)