__copy_tofrom_user fails on unaligned read faults

Dan Malek dan at embeddededge.com
Fri Nov 22 09:07:32 EST 2002


Dale Farnsworth wrote:

> For performance reasons, __copy_tofrom_user copies
> data in 16-bytes chunks.  If a read fault occurs in the
> middle of one of these chunks,


How do you get a read fault in the middle of a 16-byte
aligned data copy?


	-- Dan


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