Re: integrity of user-space copy

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 8 May 1999 02:47:55 +0100 (BST)


> When copying data to/from user-space, we know the operation can sleep. And
> interrupt driven events (including timers) can interrupt even a
> non-sleeping user-space access, right?

Right

> idea because the user-space access might sleep. Should I simply copy the
> data first with interrupts disabled, and then do the transfer?

Set a flag so the IRQ handler knows to punt, or keep two buffers, one copy
one active

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