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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2007-06-12 20:51:32 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2007-07-10 08:04:16 +0200
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pipe: add documentation and comments
As per Andrew Mortons request, here's a set of documentation for the generic pipe_buf_operations hooks, the pipe, and pipe_buffer structures. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/pipe.c')
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1 files changed, 60 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 3694af10dd2c..d007830d9c87 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -164,6 +164,20 @@ static void anon_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
page_cache_release(page);
}
+/**
+ * generic_pipe_buf_map - virtually map a pipe buffer
+ * @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
+ * @buf: the buffer that should be mapped
+ * @atomic: whether to use an atomic map
+ *
+ * Description:
+ * This function returns a kernel virtual address mapping for the
+ * passed in @pipe_buffer. If @atomic is set, an atomic map is provided
+ * and the caller has to be careful not to fault before calling
+ * the unmap function.
+ *
+ * Note that this function occupies KM_USER0 if @atomic != 0.
+ */
void *generic_pipe_buf_map(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
struct pipe_buffer *buf, int atomic)
{
@@ -175,6 +189,15 @@ void *generic_pipe_buf_map(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
return kmap(buf->page);
}
+/**
+ * generic_pipe_buf_unmap - unmap a previously mapped pipe buffer
+ * @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
+ * @buf: the buffer that should be unmapped
+ * @map_data: the data that the mapping function returned
+ *
+ * Description:
+ * This function undoes the mapping that ->map() provided.
+ */
void generic_pipe_buf_unmap(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
struct pipe_buffer *buf, void *map_data)
{
@@ -185,11 +208,28 @@ void generic_pipe_buf_unmap(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
kunmap(buf->page);
}
+/**
+ * generic_pipe_buf_steal - attempt to take ownership of a @pipe_buffer
+ * @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
+ * @buf: the buffer to attempt to steal
+ *
+ * Description:
+ * This function attempts to steal the @struct page attached to
+ * @buf. If successful, this function returns 0 and returns with
+ * the page locked. The caller may then reuse the page for whatever
+ * he wishes, the typical use is insertion into a different file
+ * page cache.
+ */
int generic_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
struct page *page = buf->page;
+ /*
+ * A reference of one is golden, that means that the owner of this
+ * page is the only one holding a reference to it. lock the page
+ * and return OK.
+ */
if (page_count(page) == 1) {
lock_page(page);
return 0;
@@ -198,11 +238,30 @@ int generic_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
return 1;
}
-void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *info, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
+/**
+ * generic_pipe_buf_get - get a reference to a @struct pipe_buffer
+ * @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
+ * @buf: the buffer to get a reference to
+ *
+ * Description:
+ * This function grabs an extra reference to @buf. It's used in
+ * in the tee() system call, when we duplicate the buffers in one
+ * pipe into another.
+ */
+void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
page_cache_get(buf->page);
}
+/**
+ * generic_pipe_buf_confirm - verify contents of the pipe buffer
+ * @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
+ * @buf: the buffer to confirm
+ *
+ * Description:
+ * This function does nothing, because the generic pipe code uses
+ * pages that are always good when inserted into the pipe.
+ */
int generic_pipe_buf_confirm(struct pipe_inode_info *info,
struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{