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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/17] perf, x86: Add copy_from_user_nmi_nochk for best effort copy
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:14:26PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Adding copy_from_user_nmi_nochk that provides the best effort
> copy regardless the requesting size crossing the task boundary.
>
> This is going to be useful for stack dump we need in post
> DWARF CFI based unwind, where we have predefined size of
> the user stack to dump, and we need to store the most of
> the requested dump size, regardless this size is crossing
> the task boundary.

What does that imply when we cross this limit? Are we still in the
task stack?


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