From 293bc9822fa9b3c9d4b7893bcb241e085580771a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:37:41 -0500 Subject: new methods: ->read_iter() and ->write_iter() Beginning to introduce those. Just the callers for now, and it's clumsier than it'll eventually become; once we finish converting aio_read and aio_write instances, the things will get nicer. For now, these guys are in parallel to ->aio_read() and ->aio_write(); they take iocb and iov_iter, with everything in iov_iter already validated. File offset is passed in iocb->ki_pos, iov/nr_segs - in iov_iter. Main concerns in that series are stack footprint and ability to split the damn thing cleanly. [fix from Peter Ujfalusi folded] Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index 1846374a5add..a1d0d7a30165 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -806,6 +806,8 @@ struct file_operations { ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *); ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t); + ssize_t (*read_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); + ssize_t (*write_iter) (struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *); int (*iterate) (struct file *, struct dir_context *); unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *); long (*unlocked_ioctl) (struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long); @@ -836,11 +838,15 @@ otherwise noted. read: called by read(2) and related system calls - aio_read: called by io_submit(2) and other asynchronous I/O operations + aio_read: vectored, possibly asynchronous read + + read_iter: possibly asynchronous read with iov_iter as destination write: called by write(2) and related system calls - aio_write: called by io_submit(2) and other asynchronous I/O operations + aio_write: vectored, possibly asynchronous write + + write_iter: possibly asynchronous write with iov_iter as source iterate: called when the VFS needs to read the directory contents -- cgit v1.2.3