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1 /*
2  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
3  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
4  * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
5  * (at your option) any later version.
6  *
7  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
8  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
9  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
10  * GNU General Public License for more details.
11  *
12  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
13  * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
14  * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
15  *
16  * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2011
17  *
18  * Authors: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
19  *          Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
20  */
21 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
22 #include <linux/hardirq.h>
23 #include <asm/switch_to.h>
24 
25 int enter_vmx_usercopy(void)
26 {
27 	if (in_interrupt())
28 		return 0;
29 
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.
35 	 */
36 	pagefault_disable();
37 
38 	enable_kernel_altivec();
39 
40 	return 1;
41 }
42 
43 /*
44  * This function must return 0 because we tail call optimise when calling
45  * from __copy_tofrom_user_power7 which returns 0 on success.
46  */
47 int exit_vmx_usercopy(void)
48 {
49 	pagefault_enable();
50 	return 0;
51 }
52 
53 int enter_vmx_copy(void)
54 {
55 	if (in_interrupt())
56 		return 0;
57 
58 	preempt_disable();
59 
60 	enable_kernel_altivec();
61 
62 	return 1;
63 }
64 
65 /*
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.
69  */
70 void *exit_vmx_copy(void *dest)
71 {
72 	preempt_enable();
73 	return dest;
74 }
75