x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library function

copy_from_user_nmi() is used in oprofile and perf. Moving it to other
library functions like copy_from_user(). As this is x86 code for 32
and 64 bits, create a new file usercopy.c for unified code.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110607172413.GJ20052@erda.amd.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 35 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index b7a010fce8c3..4ee3abf20ed6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
 
@@ -67,40 +66,6 @@ enum extra_reg_type {
         EXTRA_REG_MAX           /* number of entries needed */
 };
 
-/*
- * best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that assumes IRQ or NMI context
- */
-static unsigned long
-copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
-{
-        unsigned long offset, addr = (unsigned long)from;
-        unsigned long size, len = 0;
-        struct page *page;
-        void *map;
-        int ret;
-
-        do {
-                ret = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 0, &page);
-                if (!ret)
-                        break;
-
-                offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
-                size = min(PAGE_SIZE - offset, n - len);
-
-                map = kmap_atomic(page);
-                memcpy(to, map+offset, size);
-                kunmap_atomic(map);
-                put_page(page);
-
-                len  += size;
-                to   += size;
-                addr += size;
-
-        } while (len < n);
-
-        return len;
-}
-
 struct event_constraint {
         union {
                 unsigned long   idxmsk[BITS_TO_LONGS(X86_PMC_IDX_MAX)];