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authorVille Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>2013-02-22 16:12:51 +0200
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2013-03-03 19:49:11 +0100
commit2bb4629add2e648f1822872cce72f0fe163ce605 (patch)
tree019ee35e089baacdefa33211798825fa3ea5953c /drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
parent83f377abed03e46eb3b6ce14a91291e7cdf86647 (diff)
drm/i915: Add to_user_ptr()
to_user_ptr() simply casts a pointer passed as u64 from user space to void __user * correctly. Using this lets us get rid of all the tiresome casts. The idea came from Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>. Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index 62b15f817792..669a535e82f3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -1899,4 +1899,9 @@ static inline uint32_t i915_vgacntrl_reg(struct drm_device *dev)
return VGACNTRL;
}
+static inline void __user *to_user_ptr(u64 address)
+{
+ return (void __user *)(uintptr_t)address;
+}
+
#endif