mm/uaccess, mm/fault: Clarify that uaccess may only sleep if pagefaults are enabled

In general, non-atomic variants of user access functions must not sleep
if pagefaults are disabled.

Let's update all relevant comments in uaccess code. This also reflects
the might_sleep() checks in might_fault().

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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David Hildenbrand 2015-05-11 17:52:08 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
* @addr: User space pointer to start of block to check
* @size: Size of block to check
*
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep.
* Context: User context only. This function may sleep if pagefaults are
* enabled.
*
* Checks if a pointer to a block of memory in user space is valid.
*