Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 10:23:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dg@root.com Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Location of copyin() and copyout().. Message-ID: <199707301723.KAA05290@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199707300310.UAA12221@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jul 29, 97 08:10:28 pm
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> >If the kernel function(s) use copyin/copyout, they cannot access these
> >buffers, and thus the emulation cannot be performed.
>
> I still don't understand. copyin/out is only for copying between the kernel
> and user memory. If this is what you're doing and you don't need the extra
> features of uiomove (which is designed to do piecemeal copies by keeping track
> of offsets/lengths in a struct uio), then copyin/out is the function to use.
> If on the other hand you're copying from kernel<->kernel, then you can just
> use bcopy. I'm afraid that I started reading this thread rather late into it
> and don't have the original context...so what are we talking about? :-)
bsd_syscall_X()
{
...
copyin(...); /* copy in arguments*/
... /* do syscall stuff*/
copyout(...); /* copy out results*/
}
/*
* XXX BROKEN! BSD SYSCALL CALLS COPYIN/COPYOUT, AND CAN NOT USE
* XXX DATA FROM KERNEL SPACE INSTEAD OF USER SPACE!
*/
linux_syscall_X()
{
...
copyin(...); /* copy in arguments*/
... /* massage Linux arguments into BSD format...*/
/* call BSD call to implement Linux call...*/
bsd_syscall_X();
... /* massage BSD returns into Linux format...*/
copyout(...); /* copy out results*/
}
I didn't get this part from his orginal posting either, since
my interpretation of his original posting assumed that he was
worried about kernel preeemption for RT and threading and SMP
(like I was) instead of being worried about calling functions
from within the kernel *from other functions within the kernel*.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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