Arnd wrote:
> I have been looking for more places in 2.5 that can be marked
> might_sleep() and noticed that all the functions in asm/uaccess.h
> are not marked although they sleep if the memory they access
> has to be paged in.
>
Good idea.
There is some abuse of __get_user to identify bad pointers:
show_registers in the oops codepath, mm/slab.c in the /proc/slabinfo code.
Could you omit the test from the __ versions?
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