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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2012-03-05 11:49:32 +0000
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2012-09-17 13:42:11 +0100
commit0aea86a2176c22647a5b683768f858d880d5e05b (patch)
tree6ffad0914ef41e69c672a0862f5a10a9e9f3cb43 /arch/arm64/lib/clear_user.S
parent2c020ed8d148f7562c01abaf875c9bbfb9a40a83 (diff)
arm64: User access library functions
This patch add support for various user access functions. These functions use the standard LDR/STR instructions and not the LDRT/STRT variants in order to allow kernel addresses (after set_fs(KERNEL_DS)). Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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+/*
+ * Based on arch/arm/lib/clear_user.S
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 ARM Ltd.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+#include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <asm/assembler.h>
+
+ .text
+
+/* Prototype: int __clear_user(void *addr, size_t sz)
+ * Purpose : clear some user memory
+ * Params : addr - user memory address to clear
+ * : sz - number of bytes to clear
+ * Returns : number of bytes NOT cleared
+ *
+ * Alignment fixed up by hardware.
+ */
+ENTRY(__clear_user)
+ mov x2, x1 // save the size for fixup return
+ subs x1, x1, #8
+ b.mi 2f
+1:
+USER(9f, str xzr, [x0], #8 )
+ subs x1, x1, #8
+ b.pl 1b
+2: adds x1, x1, #4
+ b.mi 3f
+USER(9f, str wzr, [x0], #4 )
+ sub x1, x1, #4
+3: adds x1, x1, #2
+ b.mi 4f
+USER(9f, strh wzr, [x0], #2 )
+ sub x1, x1, #2
+4: adds x1, x1, #1
+ b.mi 5f
+ strb wzr, [x0]
+5: mov x0, #0
+ ret
+ENDPROC(__clear_user)
+
+ .section .fixup,"ax"
+ .align 2
+9: mov x0, x2 // return the original size
+ ret
+ .previous