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| author | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +1000 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-05-08 17:56:47 +1000 |
| commit | d254117099d711f215e62427f55dfb8ebd5ad011 (patch) | |
| tree | 0848ff8dd74314fec14a86497f8d288c86ba7c65 /mm/util.c | |
| parent | 07ff7a0b187f3951788f64ae1f30e8109bc8e9eb (diff) | |
| parent | 8c9ed899b44c19e81859fbb0e9d659fe2f8630fc (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into next
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 62 |
1 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 37eaccdf3054..55bef160b9f1 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/err.h> #include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/tracepoint.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> /** @@ -70,6 +71,36 @@ void *kmemdup(const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp) EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmemdup); /** + * memdup_user - duplicate memory region from user space + * + * @src: source address in user space + * @len: number of bytes to copy + * + * Returns an ERR_PTR() on failure. + */ +void *memdup_user(const void __user *src, size_t len) +{ + void *p; + + /* + * Always use GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() can sleep and + * cause pagefault, which makes it pointless to use GFP_NOFS + * or GFP_ATOMIC. + */ + p = kmalloc_track_caller(len, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!p) + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + + if (copy_from_user(p, src, len)) { + kfree(p); + return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); + } + + return p; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(memdup_user); + +/** * __krealloc - like krealloc() but don't free @p. * @p: object to reallocate memory for. * @new_size: how many bytes of memory are required. @@ -192,6 +223,22 @@ void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm) } #endif +/** + * get_user_pages_fast() - pin user pages in memory + * @start: starting user address + * @nr_pages: number of pages from start to pin + * @write: whether pages will be written to + * @pages: array that receives pointers to the pages pinned. + * Should be at least nr_pages long. + * + * Attempt to pin user pages in memory without taking mm->mmap_sem. + * If not successful, it will fall back to taking the lock and + * calling get_user_pages(). + * + * Returns number of pages pinned. This may be fewer than the number + * requested. If nr_pages is 0 or negative, returns 0. If no pages + * were pinned, returns -errno. + */ int __attribute__((weak)) get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write, struct page **pages) { @@ -206,3 +253,18 @@ int __attribute__((weak)) get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_user_pages_fast); + +/* Tracepoints definitions. */ +DEFINE_TRACE(kmalloc); +DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_alloc); +DEFINE_TRACE(kmalloc_node); +DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_alloc_node); +DEFINE_TRACE(kfree); +DEFINE_TRACE(kmem_cache_free); + +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmalloc_node); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc_node); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kfree); +EXPORT_TRACEPOINT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free); |
