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/lib/Makefile b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
index f2479f1..6ba4773 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
lib-y := delay.o
lib-y += thunk_$(BITS).o
-lib-y += usercopy_$(BITS).o getuser.o putuser.o
+lib-y += usercopy_$(BITS).o usercopy.o getuser.o putuser.o
lib-y += memcpy_$(BITS).o
lib-$(CONFIG_INSTRUCTION_DECODER) += insn.o inat.o
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97be9cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/*
+ * User address space access functions.
+ *
+ * For licencing details see kernel-base/COPYING
+ */
+
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+
+/*
+ * best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that is NMI-safe
+ */
+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;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);