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authorReinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@linux.intel.com>2006-10-11 01:21:55 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-11 11:14:22 -0700
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[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>
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