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authorReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com>2006-10-11 12:21:55 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-11 22:14:22 +0400
commit01a3ee2b203e511e20f98b85a9172fd32c53e87c (patch)
tree0dd90d81dc86f231828af23bdb97522405b06cab /include/linux/nodemask.h
parent39484e53bb00f55b6303a908070db133608ef2a5 (diff)
downloadlinux-01a3ee2b203e511e20f98b85a9172fd32c53e87c.tar.xz
[PATCH] bitmap: parse input from kernel and user buffers
lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a user buffer. This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc function of the /proc filesystem operates. This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user(). We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the buffer differently. We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for kernel and user. This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel buffers. We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the upcoming bandwidth allocator code. Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too. Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/nodemask.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/nodemask.h14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/nodemask.h b/include/linux/nodemask.h
index 5dce5c21822c..b1063e9cdb1b 100644
--- a/include/linux/nodemask.h
+++ b/include/linux/nodemask.h
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
* See detailed comments in the file linux/bitmap.h describing the
* data type on which these nodemasks are based.
*
- * For details of nodemask_scnprintf() and nodemask_parse(),
- * see bitmap_scnprintf() and bitmap_parse() in lib/bitmap.c.
+ * For details of nodemask_scnprintf() and nodemask_parse_user(),
+ * see bitmap_scnprintf() and bitmap_parse_user() in lib/bitmap.c.
* For details of nodelist_scnprintf() and nodelist_parse(), see
* bitmap_scnlistprintf() and bitmap_parselist(), also in bitmap.c.
* For details of node_remap(), see bitmap_bitremap in lib/bitmap.c.
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
* unsigned long *nodes_addr(mask) Array of unsigned long's in mask
*
* int nodemask_scnprintf(buf, len, mask) Format nodemask for printing
- * int nodemask_parse(ubuf, ulen, mask) Parse ascii string as nodemask
+ * int nodemask_parse_user(ubuf, ulen, mask) Parse ascii string as nodemask
* int nodelist_scnprintf(buf, len, mask) Format nodemask as list for printing
* int nodelist_parse(buf, map) Parse ascii string as nodelist
* int node_remap(oldbit, old, new) newbit = map(old, new)(oldbit)
@@ -288,12 +288,12 @@ static inline int __nodemask_scnprintf(char *buf, int len,
return bitmap_scnprintf(buf, len, srcp->bits, nbits);
}
-#define nodemask_parse(ubuf, ulen, dst) \
- __nodemask_parse((ubuf), (ulen), &(dst), MAX_NUMNODES)
-static inline int __nodemask_parse(const char __user *buf, int len,
+#define nodemask_parse_user(ubuf, ulen, dst) \
+ __nodemask_parse_user((ubuf), (ulen), &(dst), MAX_NUMNODES)
+static inline int __nodemask_parse_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
nodemask_t *dstp, int nbits)
{
- return bitmap_parse(buf, len, dstp->bits, nbits);
+ return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, dstp->bits, nbits);
}
#define nodelist_scnprintf(buf, len, src) \