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Jens Axboe
70524490ee [PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()
Basically an in-kernel implementation of tee, which uses splice and the
pipe buffers as an intelligent way to pass data around by reference.

Where the user space tee consumes the input and produces a stdout and
file output, this syscall merely duplicates the data inside a pipe to
another pipe. No data is copied, the output just grabs a reference to the
input pipe data.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-11 15:51:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
88dd9c16ce Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  [PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation
  [PATCH] Remove sys_ prefix of new syscalls from __NR_sys_*
  [PATCH] splice: warning fix
  [PATCH] another round of fs/pipe.c cleanups
  [PATCH] splice: comment styles
  [PATCH] splice: add Ingo as addition copyright holder
  [PATCH] splice: unlikely() optimizations
  [PATCH] splice: speedups and optimizations
  [PATCH] pipe.c/fifo.c code cleanups
  [PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macros
  [PATCH] splice: speedup __generic_file_splice_read
  [PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support
  [PATCH] splice: add optional input and output offsets
  [PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction
  [PATCH] splice: be smarter about calling do_page_cache_readahead()
  [PATCH] splice: optimize the splice buffer mapping
  [PATCH] splice: cleanup __generic_file_splice_read()
  [PATCH] splice: only call wake_up_interruptible() when we really have to
  [PATCH] splice: potential !page dereference
  [PATCH] splice: mark the io page as accessed
2006-04-11 06:34:02 -07:00
Andrew Morton
5246d05031 [PATCH] sync_file_range(): use unsigned for flags
Ulrich suggested that the `flags' arg to sync_file_range() become unsigned.

Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:40 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
529565dcb1 [PATCH] splice: add optional input and output offsets
add optional input and output offsets to sys_splice(), for seekable file
descriptors:

 asmlinkage long sys_splice(int fd_in, loff_t __user *off_in,
                            int fd_out, loff_t __user *off_out,
                            size_t len, unsigned int flags);

semantics are straightforward: f_pos will be updated with the offset
provided by user-space, before the splice transfer is about to begin.
Providing a NULL offset pointer means the existing f_pos will be used
(and updated in situ).  Providing an offset for a pipe results in
-ESPIPE. Providing an invalid offset pointer results in -EFAULT.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-10 15:18:58 +02:00
Andrew Morton
f79e2abb9b [PATCH] sys_sync_file_range()
Remove the recently-added LINUX_FADV_ASYNC_WRITE and LINUX_FADV_WRITE_WAIT
fadvise() additions, do it in a new sys_sync_file_range() syscall instead.
Reasons:

- It's more flexible.  Things which would require two or three syscalls with
  fadvise() can be done in a single syscall.

- Using fadvise() in this manner is something not covered by POSIX.

The patch wires up the syscall for x86.

The sycall is implemented in the new fs/sync.c.  The intention is that we can
move sys_fsync(), sys_fdatasync() and perhaps sys_sync() into there later.

Documentation for the syscall is in fs/sync.c.

A test app (sync_file_range.c) is in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz.

The available-to-GPL-modules do_sync_file_range() is for knfsd: "A COMMIT can
say NFS_DATA_SYNC or NFS_FILE_SYNC.  I can skip the ->fsync call for
NFS_DATA_SYNC which is hopefully the more common."

Note: the `async' writeout mode SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE will turn synchronous if
the queue is congested.  This is trivial to fix: add a new flag bit, set
wbc->nonblocking.  But I'm not sure that we want to expose implementation
details down to that level.

Note: it's notable that we can sync an fd which wasn't opened for writing.
Same with fsync() and fdatasync()).

Note: the code takes some care to handle attempts to sync file contents
outside the 16TB offset on 32-bit machines.  It makes such attempts appear to
succeed, for best 32-bit/64-bit compatibility.  Perhaps it should make such
requests fail...

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
Jens Axboe
5274f052e7 [PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call
This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a
transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only).

From the splice.c comments:

   "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands.

   This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as
   an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel
   buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other.

   The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation
   that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer.

   Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by
   Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation
   bugs.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-30 12:28:18 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
6961ec8267 [PATCH] add sys_unshare to syscalls.h
All architecture independent system calls should be declared
in syscalls.h, add the one that is missing.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:15 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
c04030e16d [PATCH] flags parameter for linkat
I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the
incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition.  The name.
Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does.

Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this
because it would break the ABI.  But the fact remains that some application
might want this behavior.

We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior.
 For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new
flags parameter.  If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new
behavior could be invoked.

I do not want to introduce such a patch now.  But we could add the
parameter now, just don't use it.  The patch below would do this.  Can we
get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the
syscall API?

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-24 14:31:39 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
cff2b76009 [PATCH] fstatat64 support
The *at patches introduced fstatat and, due to inusfficient research, I
used the newfstat functions generally as the guideline.  The result is that
on 32-bit platforms we don't have all the information needed to implement
fstatat64.

This patch modifies the code to pass up 64-bit information if
__ARCH_WANT_STAT64 is defined.  I renamed the syscall entry point to make
this clear.  Other archs will continue to use the existing code.  On x86-64
the compat code is implemented using a new sys32_ function.  this is what
is done for the other stat syscalls as well.

This patch might break some other archs (those which define
__ARCH_WANT_STAT64 and which already wired up the syscall).  Yet others
might need changes to accomodate the compatibility mode.  I really don't
want to do that work because all this stat handling is a mess (more so in
glibc, but the kernel is also affected).  It should be done by the arch
maintainers.  I'll provide some stand-alone test shortly.  Those who are
eager could compile glibc and run 'make check' (no installation needed).

The patch below has been tested on x86 and x86-64.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-11 21:41:10 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
9ad11ab48b [PATCH] compat: fix compat_sys_openat and friends
Most of the 64 bit architectures will zero extend the first argument to
compat_sys_{openat,newfstatat,futimesat} which will fail if the 32 bit
syscall was passed AT_FDCWD (which is a small negative number).  Declare
the first argument to be an unsigned int which will force the correct
sign extension when the internal functions are called in each case.

Also, do some small white space cleanups in fs/compat.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 22:04:33 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
3a2ca64496 [PATCH] prototypes for *at functions & typo fix
Here's the follow-up patch which introduces the prototypes for the new
syscalls.  There was also a typo in one of the new symbols.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:09 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
5131cf154a [PATCH] add missing syscall declarations
All standard system calls should be declared in include/linux/syscalls.h.

Add some of the new additions that were previously missed.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6150c32589 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-09 10:03:44 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
39743889aa [PATCH] Swap Migration V5: sys_migrate_pages interface
sys_migrate_pages implementation using swap based page migration

This is the original API proposed by Ray Bryant in his posts during the first
half of 2005 on linux-mm@kvack.org and linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org.

The intent of sys_migrate is to migrate memory of a process.  A process may
have migrated to another node.  Memory was allocated optimally for the prior
context.  sys_migrate_pages allows to shift the memory to the new node.

sys_migrate_pages is also useful if the processes available memory nodes have
changed through cpuset operations to manually move the processes memory.  Paul
Jackson is working on an automated mechanism that will allow an automatic
migration if the cpuset of a process is changed.  However, a user may decide
to manually control the migration.

This implementation is put into the policy layer since it uses concepts and
functions that are also needed for mbind and friends.  The patch also provides
a do_migrate_pages function that may be useful for cpusets to automatically
move memory.  sys_migrate_pages does not modify policies in contrast to Ray's
implementation.

The current code here is based on the swap based page migration capability and
thus is not able to preserve the physical layout relative to it containing
nodeset (which may be a cpuset).  When direct page migration becomes available
then the implementation needs to be changed to do a isomorphic move of pages
between different nodesets.  The current implementation simply evicts all
pages in source nodeset that are not in the target nodeset.

Patch supports ia64, i386 and x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:42 -08:00
Arnd Bergmann
67207b9664 [PATCH] spufs: The SPU file system, base
This is the current version of the spu file system, used
for driving SPEs on the Cell Broadband Engine.

This release is almost identical to the version for the
2.6.14 kernel posted earlier, which is available as part
of the Cell BE Linux distribution from
http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/.

The first patch provides all the interfaces for running
spu application, but does not have any support for
debugging SPU tasks or for scheduling. Both these
functionalities are added in the subsequent patches.

See Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt on how to use
spufs.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 14:49:12 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
dfb7dac3af [PATCH] unify sys_ptrace prototype
Make sure we always return, as all syscalls should.  Also move the common
prototype to <linux/syscalls.h>

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:20 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
7980cbbb30 [PATCH] Adds sys_set_mempolicy() in include/linux/syscalls.h
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:12:18 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
cf36680887 [PATCH] move ioprio syscalls into syscalls.h
- Make ioprio syscalls return long, like set/getpriority syscalls.
- Move function prototypes into syscalls.h so we can pick them up in the
  32/64bit compat code.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:37 -07:00
Maneesh Soni
72414d3f1d [PATCH] kexec code cleanup
o Following patch provides purely cosmetic changes and corrects CodingStyle
  guide lines related certain issues like below in kexec related files

  o braces for one line "if" statements, "for" loops,
  o more than 80 column wide lines,
  o No space after "while", "for" and "switch" key words

o Changes:
  o take-2: Removed the extra tab before "case" key words.
  o take-3: Put operator at the end of line and space before "*/"

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:55 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
dc009d9243 [PATCH] kexec: add kexec syscalls
This patch introduces the architecture independent implementation the
sys_kexec_load, the compat_sys_kexec_load system calls.

Kexec on panic support has been integrated into the core patch and is
relatively clean.

In addition the hopefully architecture independent option
crashkernel=size@location has been docuemented.  It's purpose is to reserve
space for the panic kernel to live, and where no DMA transfer will ever be
setup to access.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:48 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
7d87e14c23 [PATCH] consolidate sys_shmat
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00