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* [PATCH] use struct kvec in struct uio
@ 2006-11-29 15:46 Christoph Hellwig
  2007-02-07 12:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2006-11-29 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xfs

All but one useage of struct uio are for kernel pointers, so let's use
struct kvec instead of struct iovec.  Because readlink by handle still
uses it with a user pointer we still have two sparse warnings, but the
noise level is reduced quite a bit by this.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/support/move.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/support/move.h	2006-11-29 16:27:25.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/support/move.h	2006-11-29 16:30:18.000000000 +0100
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 };
 
 struct uio {
-	struct iovec	*uio_iov;   /* pointer to array of iovecs */
+	struct kvec	*uio_iov;   /* pointer to array of iovecs */
 	int		uio_iovcnt; /* number of iovecs in array */
 	xfs_off_t	uio_offset; /* offset in file this uio corresponds to */
 	int		uio_resid;  /* residual i/o count */
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 };
 
 typedef struct uio uio_t;
-typedef struct iovec iovec_t;
+typedef struct kvec iovec_t;
 
 extern int	xfs_uio_read (caddr_t, size_t, uio_t *);
 
Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c	2006-11-29 16:33:37.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl.c	2006-11-29 16:34:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@
 	aiov.iov_len	= olen;
 	aiov.iov_base	= hreq.ohandle;
 
-	auio.uio_iov	= &aiov;
+	auio.uio_iov	= (struct kvec *)&aiov;
 	auio.uio_iovcnt	= 1;
 	auio.uio_offset	= 0;
 	auio.uio_segflg	= UIO_USERSPACE;

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