[PATCHES] New kiobuf diffs for 2.3.99-pre9-2

Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-05-18T14:29:03Z

Hi all,

I've batched the current kiobuf code up at

ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/fs/raw-io/kiobuf.2.3.99.pre9-2.tar.gz

There are a couple of new things in here since the last version. In
particular, it includes Kanoj Sarcar's fork fixes and Dave Miller's
pipe speedup code, as well as a few minor bug fixes and fixes to error
return codes.

I'll wait for feedback and then file those bits which are clearly
bugfixes on to Linus. The more significant changes will probably
be post-2.4 items.

>From the README:

This tarball contains the following patches, to be applied in order:

01-mapfix.diff

map_user_kiobuf() retries failed maps to cover a race in which
the swapper steals a page before the kiobuf has grabbed and
locked it.

02-iocount.diff

Kanoj Sarcar's fixes to allow kiobufs to work properly over
fork(), even on threaded applications.

03-davem-pipe.diff

Dave Miller's rocking pipe code using kiobufs for a 2*
throughput improvement on simple streaming pipe I/O.

04-eiofix.diff

Fix to return -EIO instead of 0 if a raw I/O read or write
encounters an error in the first block.

05-kvmap.diff

New code to allow:

1) map_kernel_kiobuf: the analogue of map_user_kiobuf,
except that it works on kernel virtual addresses instead.
Even vmalloc()ed regions work.

2) Add a "flags" argument to map_*_kiobuf. The only flag
honoured is

MAP_PRIVATE: any mappings of the kiobuf will be kept
process-local over forks. Without this,
the pages will remain shared over fork
(which will cause real problems if you
map the pages into a MAP_PRIVATE vma in
user space).

MAP_PRIVATE is used by the raw character device.

3) Add kvmap infrastructure to allow mmap() of any kiobuf.
Includes a sample driver in Documentation/kiobuf.sample.c
to show how it can work.

06-enxio.diff

Return ENXIO on read/write at or beyond the end of the device
for raw I/O

--Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>

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