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Subject[PATCH 1/3] copyfile: generic_sendpage
Andrew,

looks like there are four independent groups interested in these
ground-laying patches for cowlinks:
o me (of course)
o vserver - they want cowlinks as well
o cifs - to optimize sys_copyfile() and reduce network transfers
o unionmount - you might remember Jan Blunck's fix to ext3

So I am, ready to accept my deserved beating and do the necessary
cleanups.

Jörn

--
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good,
you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken quoted by Ken Iverson quoted by Jim Horning quoted by
Raph Levien, 1979


o Add sendfile() support for file targets to normal mm/filemap.c.
o Have ext[23] use that support.

fs/ext2/file.c | 1
fs/ext3/file.c | 1
include/linux/fs.h | 1
mm/filemap.c | 216 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 219 insertions(+)


--- linux-2.6.5cow/include/linux/fs.h~generic_sendpage 2004-05-06 10:04:00.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5cow/include/linux/fs.h 2004-05-14 18:30:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -1332,6 +1332,7 @@
ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos);
extern ssize_t generic_file_sendfile(struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, read_actor_t, void *);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_sendpage(struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
extern void do_generic_mapping_read(struct address_space *mapping,
struct file_ra_state *, struct file *,
loff_t *, read_descriptor_t *, read_actor_t);
--- linux-2.6.5cow/mm/filemap.c~generic_sendpage 2004-05-06 10:03:59.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5cow/mm/filemap.c 2004-05-06 10:04:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -896,6 +896,31 @@
return written;
}

+/* FIXME: It would be as simple as this, if we had a (void __user*) to write.
+ * We already have a kernel buffer, so it should be even simpler, right? ;)
+ *
+ * Yes, sorta. After duplicating the complete path of generic_file_write(),
+ * at least some special cases could be removed, so the copy is simpler than
+ * the original. But it remains a copy, so overall complexity increases.
+ */
+static ssize_t
+generic_kernel_file_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);
+
+ssize_t generic_file_sendpage(struct file *file, struct page *page,
+ int offset, size_t size, loff_t *ppos, int more)
+{
+ ssize_t ret;
+ char *kaddr;
+
+ kaddr = kmap(page);
+ ret = generic_kernel_file_write(file, kaddr + offset, size, ppos);
+ kunmap(page);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_sendpage);
+
ssize_t generic_file_sendfile(struct file *in_file, loff_t *ppos,
size_t count, read_actor_t actor, void *target)
{
@@ -1554,6 +1579,19 @@
return bytes - left;
}

+static inline size_t
+filemap_copy_from_kernel(struct page *page, unsigned long offset,
+ const char *buf, unsigned bytes)
+{
+ char *kaddr;
+
+ kaddr = kmap(page);
+ memcpy(kaddr + offset, buf, bytes);
+ kunmap(page);
+
+ return bytes;
+}
+
static size_t
__filemap_copy_from_user_iovec(char *vaddr,
const struct iovec *iov, size_t base, size_t bytes)
@@ -1910,6 +1948,155 @@

EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write_nolock);

+/*
+ * TODO:
+ * This largely tries to copy generic_file_aio_write_nolock(), although it
+ * doesn't have to be nearly as generic. A real cleanup should either
+ * merge this into generic_file_aio_write_nolock() as well or keep it special
+ * and remove as much code as possible.
+ */
+static ssize_t
+generic_kernel_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec*iov,
+ unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
+ struct address_space * mapping = file->f_mapping;
+ struct address_space_operations *a_ops = mapping->a_ops;
+ size_t ocount; /* original count */
+ size_t count; /* after file limit checks */
+ struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
+ long status = 0;
+ loff_t pos;
+ struct page *page;
+ struct page *cached_page = NULL;
+ const int isblk = S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode);
+ ssize_t written;
+ ssize_t err;
+ size_t bytes;
+ struct pagevec lru_pvec;
+ const struct iovec *cur_iov = iov; /* current iovec */
+ size_t iov_base = 0; /* offset in the current iovec */
+ unsigned long seg;
+ char *buf;
+
+ ocount = 0;
+ for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
+ const struct iovec *iv = &iov[seg];
+
+ /*
+ * If any segment has a negative length, or the cumulative
+ * length ever wraps negative then return -EINVAL.
+ */
+ ocount += iv->iov_len;
+ if (unlikely((ssize_t)(ocount|iv->iov_len) < 0))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ count = ocount;
+ pos = *ppos;
+ pagevec_init(&lru_pvec, 0);
+
+ /* We can write back this queue in page reclaim */
+ current->backing_dev_info = mapping->backing_dev_info;
+ written = 0;
+
+ err = generic_write_checks(file, &pos, &count, isblk);
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+
+
+ if (count == 0)
+ goto out;
+
+ remove_suid(file->f_dentry);
+ inode_update_time(inode, 1);
+
+ /* There is no sane reason to use O_DIRECT */
+ BUG_ON(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT);
+
+ buf = (char *)iov->iov_base;
+ do {
+ unsigned long index;
+ unsigned long offset;
+ size_t copied;
+
+ offset = (pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -1)); /* Within page */
+ index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
+ bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
+ if (bytes > count)
+ bytes = count;
+
+ page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec);
+ if (!page) {
+ status = -ENOMEM;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ status = a_ops->prepare_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);
+ if (unlikely(status)) {
+ loff_t isize = i_size_read(inode);
+ /*
+ * prepare_write() may have instantiated a few blocks
+ * outside i_size. Trim these off again.
+ */
+ unlock_page(page);
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ if (pos + bytes > isize)
+ vmtruncate(inode, isize);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ BUG_ON(nr_segs != 1);
+ copied = filemap_copy_from_kernel(page, offset, buf, bytes);
+
+ flush_dcache_page(page);
+ status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);
+ if (likely(copied > 0)) {
+ if (!status)
+ status = copied;
+
+ if (status >= 0) {
+ written += status;
+ count -= status;
+ pos += status;
+ buf += status;
+ if (unlikely(nr_segs > 1))
+ filemap_set_next_iovec(&cur_iov,
+ &iov_base, status);
+ }
+ }
+ if (unlikely(copied != bytes))
+ if (status >= 0)
+ status = -EFAULT;
+ unlock_page(page);
+ mark_page_accessed(page);
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ if (status < 0)
+ break;
+ balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+ cond_resched();
+ } while (count);
+ *ppos = pos;
+
+ if (cached_page)
+ page_cache_release(cached_page);
+
+ /*
+ * For now, when the user asks for O_SYNC, we'll actually give O_DSYNC
+ */
+ if (status >= 0) {
+ if ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))
+ status = generic_osync_inode(inode, mapping,
+ OSYNC_METADATA|OSYNC_DATA);
+ }
+
+ err = written ? written : status;
+out:
+ pagevec_lru_add(&lru_pvec);
+ current->backing_dev_info = 0;
+ return err;
+}
+
ssize_t
generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
@@ -1924,6 +2111,20 @@
return ret;
}

+static ssize_t
+generic_kernel_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+ unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct kiocb kiocb;
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
+ ret = generic_kernel_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+ if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED)
+ ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+ return ret;
+}
+
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write_nolock);

ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
@@ -1962,6 +2163,21 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write);

+static ssize_t generic_kernel_file_write(struct file *file, const char *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = file->f_mapping->host;
+ ssize_t err;
+ struct iovec local_iov = {.iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
+ .iov_len = count };
+
+ down(&inode->i_sem);
+ err = generic_kernel_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
+ up(&inode->i_sem);
+
+ return err;
+}
+
ssize_t generic_file_readv(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
{
--- linux-2.6.5cow/fs/ext2/file.c~generic_sendpage 2004-05-06 10:03:59.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5cow/fs/ext2/file.c 2004-05-06 10:04:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
.readv = generic_file_readv,
.writev = generic_file_writev,
.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
+ .sendpage = generic_file_sendpage,
};

struct inode_operations ext2_file_inode_operations = {
--- linux-2.6.5cow/fs/ext3/file.c~generic_sendpage 2004-05-06 10:03:59.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.5cow/fs/ext3/file.c 2004-05-06 10:04:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@
.release = ext3_release_file,
.fsync = ext3_sync_file,
.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
+ .sendpage = generic_file_sendpage,
};

struct inode_operations ext3_file_inode_operations = {
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