Name
kfifo_to_user —
copies data from the fifo into user space
Synopsis
kfifo_to_user ( | fifo, |
| to, |
| len, |
| copied) ; |
Arguments
fifo
address of the fifo to be used
to
where the data must be copied
len
the size of the destination buffer
copied
pointer to output variable to store the number of copied bytes
Description
This macro copies at most len
bytes from the fifo into the
to
buffer and returns -EFAULT/0.
Note that with only one concurrent reader and one concurrent
writer, you don't need extra locking to use these macro.