On Tue, 21 May 2002 14:46:08 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> wrote:
> Pavel makes a reasonable point that copy_*_user may elect
> to copy the data in something other than strictly ascending
> user virtual addresses. In which case it's not possible to return
> a sane "how much was copied" number.
If I understand Paulus correctly, PPC64 could share their optimized memcpy
routine (ie. icache win), from which it is really hard to tell how far we got
before we faulted.
You then do the fixup search on the link register (ie. to find the caller).
Rusty.
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