From: Jason Wessel Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:33:29 +0000 (-0500) Subject: kgdb: have ebin2mem call probe_kernel_write once X-Git-Url: http://git.mmlx.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a0279bd58060ccedbd414edf97d50cfa3778c370;p=linux-edison.git kgdb: have ebin2mem call probe_kernel_write once Rather than call probe_kernel_write() one byte at a time, process the whole buffer locally and pass the entire result in one go. This way, architectures that need to do special handling based on the length can do so, or we only end up calling memcpy() once. [sonic.zhang@analog.com: Reported original problem and preliminary patch] Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger --- diff --git a/kernel/kgdb.c b/kernel/kgdb.c index 761fdd2b303..42fd128127a 100644 --- a/kernel/kgdb.c +++ b/kernel/kgdb.c @@ -391,27 +391,22 @@ int kgdb_mem2hex(char *mem, char *buf, int count) /* * Copy the binary array pointed to by buf into mem. Fix $, #, and - * 0x7d escaped with 0x7d. Return a pointer to the character after - * the last byte written. + * 0x7d escaped with 0x7d. Return -EFAULT on failure or 0 on success. + * The input buf is overwitten with the result to write to mem. */ static int kgdb_ebin2mem(char *buf, char *mem, int count) { - int err = 0; - char c; + int size = 0; + char *c = buf; while (count-- > 0) { - c = *buf++; - if (c == 0x7d) - c = *buf++ ^ 0x20; - - err = probe_kernel_write(mem, &c, 1); - if (err) - break; - - mem++; + c[size] = *buf++; + if (c[size] == 0x7d) + c[size] = *buf++ ^ 0x20; + size++; } - return err; + return probe_kernel_write(mem, c, size); } /*