[PATCH 3/3] copyfile: copyfile

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

This one might be a little controversion.  The system call would be
needed for cifs, so they can optimize it and to the copyfile
completely on the server.  It's also nice for testing, for people that
don't want to use the madcow patches (I do, but I agree those should
not go into mainline.

copyfile(2) is about 10% faster than cp(1) with the read/write loop on
a single large file and with warm cache.  Arguably, using open(2),
sendfile(2), close(2) should give the same result, so that only leaves
cifs as a good reason for the system call.

Comment?

Jörn

-- 
A victorious army first wins and then seeks battle.
-- Sun Tzu

Adds a new syscall, copyfile() which does as the name sais.

This syscall is a preparation for real cowlinks, but it might make sense on
it's own as well.  For cowlinks, the real copy is not done until the first
write (or similar operation) occurs, but at that point, both operations
should be the same.

 arch/i386/kernel/entry.S |    1 
 fs/namei.c               |  142 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 143 insertions(+)


--- linux-2.6.7cow/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S~copyfile	2004-06-27 23:14:31.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.7cow/arch/i386/kernel/entry.S	2004-08-02 20:16:38.000000000 +0200
@@ -886,5 +886,6 @@
 	.long sys_vperfctr_unlink
 	.long sys_vperfctr_iresume
 	.long sys_vperfctr_read
+	.long sys_copyfile
 
 syscall_table_size=(.-sys_call_table)
--- linux-2.6.7cow/fs/namei.c~copyfile	2004-06-27 23:14:31.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.7cow/fs/namei.c	2004-08-02 20:19:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -2144,6 +2144,148 @@
 	return error;
 }
 
+/* note how we open() two struct file *, just to do the sendfile().  this
+ * should not be necessary, only nfs, smbfs and cifs depend on the struct
+ * file *, while afs and all local filesystems can do without.
+ * but changing all interfaces and fixing up three filesystems is a little
+ * too much work for now.
+ */
+#include <linux/file.h> /* for fput */
+static int copy_data(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct vfsmount *old_mnt,
+		     struct dentry *new_dentry, struct vfsmount *new_mnt)
+{
+	int ret;
+	loff_t size;
+	ssize_t n;
+	struct file *old_file;
+	struct file *new_file;
+
+	dget(old_dentry);
+	mntget(old_mnt);
+	old_file = dentry_open(old_dentry, old_mnt, O_RDONLY);
+	if (IS_ERR(old_file))
+		return PTR_ERR(old_file);
+
+	dget(new_dentry);
+	mntget(new_mnt);
+	new_file = dentry_open(new_dentry, new_mnt, O_WRONLY);
+	ret = PTR_ERR(new_file);
+	if (IS_ERR(new_file))
+		goto out1;
+
+	size = i_size_read(old_file->f_dentry->d_inode);
+	if (((size_t)size != size) || ((ssize_t)size != size)) {
+		ret = -EFBIG;
+		goto out2;
+	}
+	n = vfs_sendfile(new_file, old_file, NULL, size, 0);
+	if (n == size)
+		ret = 0;
+	else if (n < 0)
+		ret = n;
+	else
+		ret = -ENOSPC;
+
+out2:
+	fput(new_file);
+out1:
+	fput(old_file);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+int vfs_copyfile(struct nameidata *old_nd, struct nameidata *new_nd,
+		 struct dentry *new_dentry, int mode)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!old_nd->dentry->d_inode)
+		return -ENOENT;
+	if (!S_ISREG(old_nd->dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	/* FIXME: replace with proper permission check */
+	if (new_dentry->d_inode)
+		return -EEXIST;
+
+	if (mode == -1)
+		mode = old_nd->dentry->d_inode->i_mode;
+
+	ret = vfs_create(new_nd->dentry->d_inode, new_dentry, mode, new_nd);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	ret = copy_data(old_nd->dentry, old_nd->mnt, new_dentry, new_nd->mnt);
+
+	if (ret) {
+		int error = vfs_unlink(new_nd->dentry->d_inode, new_dentry);
+		BUG_ON(error);
+		/* FIXME: not sure if there are return value we should not BUG()
+		 * on */
+	}
+	return ret;
+}
+
+int do_copyfile(const char *from, const char *to, int mode)
+{
+	int ret;
+	struct dentry *new_dentry;
+	struct nameidata old_nd, new_nd;
+
+	ret = path_lookup(from, 0, &old_nd);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	ret = path_lookup(to, LOOKUP_PARENT|LOOKUP_OPEN|LOOKUP_CREATE, &new_nd);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out1;
+
+	new_dentry = lookup_create(&new_nd, 0);
+	ret = PTR_ERR(new_dentry);
+	if (IS_ERR(new_dentry))
+		goto out2;
+
+	ret = vfs_copyfile(&old_nd, &new_nd, new_dentry, mode);
+
+	dput(new_dentry);
+	up(&new_nd.dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
+out2:
+	path_release(&new_nd);
+out1:
+	path_release(&old_nd);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/* copyfile() - create a new file and copy the old one's contents into it, all
+ * inside the kernel
+ *
+ * TODO:
+ * quota
+ * notification
+ * security
+ * unlock directory during data copy
+ * loop for data copy
+ */
+int sys_copyfile(const char __user *ufrom, const char __user *uto, umode_t mode)
+{
+	char *from, *to;
+	int ret;
+
+	from = getname(ufrom);
+	if (IS_ERR(from))
+		return PTR_ERR(from);
+
+	to = getname(uto);
+	ret = PTR_ERR(to);
+	if (IS_ERR(to))
+		goto err;
+
+	ret = do_copyfile(from, to, mode);
+
+	putname(to);
+err:
+	putname(from);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 int vfs_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int buflen, const char *link)
 {
 	int len;