Merge branch 'uaccess' (batched user access infrastructure)

Expose an interface to allow users to mark several accesses together as
being user space accesses, allowing batching of the surrounding user
space access markers (SMAP on x86, PAN on arm64, domain register
switching on arm).

This is currently only used for the user string lenth and copying
functions, where the SMAP overhead on x86 drowned the actual user
accesses (only noticeable on newer microarchitectures that support SMAP
in the first place, of course).

* user access batching branch:
  Use the new batched user accesses in generic user string handling
  Add 'unsafe' user access functions for batched accesses
  x86: reorganize SMAP handling in user space accesses
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Linus Torvalds
2016-01-21 13:02:41 -08:00
5 changed files with 155 additions and 53 deletions

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@@ -111,4 +111,11 @@ extern long strncpy_from_unsafe(char *dst, const void *unsafe_addr, long count);
#define probe_kernel_address(addr, retval) \
probe_kernel_read(&retval, addr, sizeof(retval))
#ifndef user_access_begin
#define user_access_begin() do { } while (0)
#define user_access_end() do { } while (0)
#define unsafe_get_user(x, ptr) __get_user(x, ptr)
#define unsafe_put_user(x, ptr) __put_user(x, ptr)
#endif
#endif /* __LINUX_UACCESS_H__ */