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1 /*
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16 * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2011
18 * Authors: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
19 * Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
21 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
22 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
23 #include <asm/switch_to.h>
25 int enter_vmx_usercopy(void)
27 if (in_interrupt())
28 return 0;
30 /* This acts as preempt_disable() as well and will make
31 * enable_kernel_altivec(). We need to disable page faults
32 * as they can call schedule and thus make us lose the VMX
33 * context. So on page faults, we just fail which will cause
34 * a fallback to the normal non-vmx copy.
36 pagefault_disable();
38 enable_kernel_altivec();
40 return 1;
44 * This function must return 0 because we tail call optimise when calling
45 * from __copy_tofrom_user_power7 which returns 0 on success.
47 int exit_vmx_usercopy(void)
49 pagefault_enable();
50 return 0;
53 int enter_vmx_copy(void)
55 if (in_interrupt())
56 return 0;
58 preempt_disable();
60 enable_kernel_altivec();
62 return 1;
66 * All calls to this function will be optimised into tail calls. We are
67 * passed a pointer to the destination which we return as required by a
68 * memcpy implementation.
70 void *exit_vmx_copy(void *dest)
72 preempt_enable();
73 return dest;