Re: [PATCH v2] fideduperange.2: fix the discussion of maximum sizes

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 11/23/2016 05:48 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Fix the discussion of the limitations on the dest_count and src_length
> parameters to the fideduperange ioctl to reflect what's actually in the
> kernel.

Thanks Darrick. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael


> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 |   20 +++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
> index 2112d10..057229d 100644
> --- a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
> +++ b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct file_dedupe_range_info {
>  .in
>  
>  Each deduplication operation targets
> -.IR length
> +.IR src_length
>  bytes in file descriptor
>  .IR dest_fd
>  at offset
> @@ -108,8 +108,15 @@ During the call,
>  must be open for reading and
>  .IR dest_fd
>  must be open for writing.
> -For any call to this ioctl, there may not be more than 65,536
> -requests attached; each request may not exceed 16MiB.
> +The combined size of the struct
> +.IR file_dedupe_range
> +and the struct
> +.IR file_dedupe_range_info
> +array must not exceed the system page size.
> +The maximum size of
> +.IR src_length
> +is filesystem dependent and is typically 16MiB.
> +This limit will be enforced silently by the filesystem.
>  By convention, the storage used by
>  .IR src_fd
>  is mapped into
> @@ -144,6 +151,13 @@ is set to indicate the error.
>  .SH ERRORS
>  Error codes can be one of, but are not limited to, the following:
>  .TP
> +.B ENOMEM
> +The kernel was unable to allocate sufficient memory to perform the
> +operation or
> +.IR dest_count
> +is so large that the input argument description spans more than a single
> +page of memory.
> +.TP
>  .B EBADF
>  .IR src_fd
>  is not open for reading;
> .
> 


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