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Commit 1a7c3d9b authored by Todd Kjos's avatar Todd Kjos Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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binder: create userspace-to-binder-buffer copy function



The binder driver uses a vm_area to map the per-process
binder buffer space. For 32-bit android devices, this is
now taking too much vmalloc space. This patch removes
the use of vm_area when copying the transaction data
from the sender to the buffer space. Instead of using
copy_from_user() for multi-page copies, it now uses
binder_alloc_copy_user_to_buffer() which uses kmap()
and kunmap() to map each page, and uses copy_from_user()
for copying to that page.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTodd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 6cffd795
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