Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:13:47 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] kgdb light, v5 |
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* Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.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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