Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:47:00 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: might_sleep() in copy_{from,to}_user and friends? |
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Arnd wrote: > I have been looking for more places in 2.5 that can be marked > might_sleep() and noticed that all the functions in asm/uaccess.h > are not marked although they sleep if the memory they access > has to be paged in. >
Good idea. There is some abuse of __get_user to identify bad pointers: show_registers in the oops codepath, mm/slab.c in the /proc/slabinfo code.
Could you omit the test from the __ versions?
-- Manfred
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