Re: [git pull] kgdb light, v5

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sun Feb 10 2008 - 16:14:19 EST



* Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> 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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