__copy_tofrom_user fails on unaligned read faults

[Dan Malek]

Dale Farnsworth wrote:

> The 16-byte copy is aligned on the destination address.
> It is unaligned with respect to the source address.

I see, so do the semantics of a copy_to/from allow this behavior?
If you still return an error, how does the caller know how many
bytes were transferred?  I always thought if you handled a SEG/BUS
fault exception the contents of the buffer were undefined.


	-- Dan


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