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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/cpumask.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/cpumask.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cpumask.h14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cpumask.h b/include/linux/cpumask.h
index b268a3c0c376..d0e8c8b0e34d 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
* See detailed comments in the file linux/bitmap.h describing the
* data type on which these cpumasks are based.
*
- * For details of cpumask_scnprintf() and cpumask_parse(),
- * see bitmap_scnprintf() and bitmap_parse() in lib/bitmap.c.
+ * For details of cpumask_scnprintf() and cpumask_parse_user(),
+ * see bitmap_scnprintf() and bitmap_parse_user() in lib/bitmap.c.
* For details of cpulist_scnprintf() and cpulist_parse(), see
* bitmap_scnlistprintf() and bitmap_parselist(), also in bitmap.c.
* For details of cpu_remap(), see bitmap_bitremap in lib/bitmap.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
* unsigned long *cpus_addr(mask) Array of unsigned long's in mask
*
* int cpumask_scnprintf(buf, len, mask) Format cpumask for printing
- * int cpumask_parse(ubuf, ulen, mask) Parse ascii string as cpumask
+ * int cpumask_parse_user(ubuf, ulen, mask) Parse ascii string as cpumask
* int cpulist_scnprintf(buf, len, mask) Format cpumask as list for printing
* int cpulist_parse(buf, map) Parse ascii string as cpulist
* int cpu_remap(oldbit, old, new) newbit = map(old, new)(oldbit)
@@ -273,12 +273,12 @@ static inline int __cpumask_scnprintf(char *buf, int len,
return bitmap_scnprintf(buf, len, srcp->bits, nbits);
}
-#define cpumask_parse(ubuf, ulen, dst) \
- __cpumask_parse((ubuf), (ulen), &(dst), NR_CPUS)
-static inline int __cpumask_parse(const char __user *buf, int len,
+#define cpumask_parse_user(ubuf, ulen, dst) \
+ __cpumask_parse_user((ubuf), (ulen), &(dst), NR_CPUS)
+static inline int __cpumask_parse_user(const char __user *buf, int len,
cpumask_t *dstp, int nbits)
{
- return bitmap_parse(buf, len, dstp->bits, nbits);
+ return bitmap_parse_user(buf, len, dstp->bits, nbits);
}
#define cpulist_scnprintf(buf, len, src) \