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authorLorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>2023-03-22 18:57:03 +0000
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2023-04-06 02:42:57 +0000
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iov_iter: add copy_page_to_iter_nofault()
Provide a means to copy a page to user space from an iterator, aborting if a page fault would occur. This supports compound pages, but may be passed a tail page with an offset extending further into the compound page, so we cannot pass a folio. This allows for this function to be called from atomic context and _try_ to user pages if they are faulted in, aborting if not. The function does not use _copy_to_iter() in order to not specify might_fault(), this is similar to copy_page_from_iter_atomic(). This is being added in order that an iteratable form of vread() can be implemented while holding spinlocks. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/19734729defb0f498a76bdec1bef3ac48a3af3e8.1679511146.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]> Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Liu Shixin <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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