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NOMMU: Use copy_*_user_page() in access_process_vm()
authorJie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Wed, 6 Jan 2010 17:23:28 +0000 (17:23 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:16:02 +0000 (18:16 -0800)
commit7959722b951cffcd61a0a35229d007deeed8c2dd
tree18badc77e7c79042c9321c279f9b47e8af3b36c5
parentcfe79c00a2f4f687eed8b7534d1d3d3d35540c29
NOMMU: Use copy_*_user_page() in access_process_vm()

The MMU code uses the copy_*_user_page() variants in access_process_vm()
rather than copy_*_user() as the former includes an icache flush.  This
is important when doing things like setting software breakpoints with
gdb.  So switch the NOMMU code over to do the same.

This patch makes the reasonable assumption that copy_from_user_page()
won't fail - which is probably fine, as we've checked the VMA from which
we're copying is usable, and the copy is not allowed to cross VMAs.  The
one case where it might go wrong is if the VMA is a device rather than
RAM, and that device returns an error which - in which case rubbish will
be returned rather than EIO.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David McCullough <david_mccullough@mcafee.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/nommu.c