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Message-ID: <20080210211347.GB29507@elte.hu>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:13:47 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [git pull] kgdb light, v5
* Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de> wrote:
> Maybe, maybe not. I followed the comment in the original code, saying
> that we need word-wise access for I/O memory poking. Can I assume
> across a all archs that __copy_to/from_user will not perform byte
> accesses if count is 2, 4, or 8? I would be glad if we can kill other
> couple of line.
those architectures should extend mm/maccess.c accordingly. It's now the
collector point for "weird kernel-owned memory access functionality".
> Ingo, if you are close to an editor, please pick those up? Here are
> some offline things cooking on my side...
yeah, fixed these in my tree.
Ingo
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