From f3554f4bc69803ac2baaf7cf2aa4339e1f4b693e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:59:23 -0700 Subject: preadv/pwritev: Add preadv and pwritev system calls. This patch adds preadv and pwritev system calls. These syscalls are a pretty straightforward combination of pread and readv (same for write). They are quite useful for doing vectored I/O in threaded applications. Using lseek+readv instead opens race windows you'll have to plug with locking. Other systems have such system calls too, for example NetBSD, check here: http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/preadv.2.html The application-visible interface provided by glibc should look like this to be compatible to the existing implementations in the *BSD family: ssize_t preadv(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset); ssize_t pwritev(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset); This prototype has one problem though: On 32bit archs is the (64bit) offset argument unaligned, which the syscall ABI of several archs doesn't allow to do. At least s390 needs a wrapper in glibc to handle this. As we'll need a wrappers in glibc anyway I've decided to push problem to glibc entriely and use a syscall prototype which works without arch-specific wrappers inside the kernel: The offset argument is explicitly splitted into two 32bit values. The patch sports the actual system call implementation and the windup in the x86 system call tables. Other archs follow as separate patches. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Al Viro Cc: Cc: Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/ia32') diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S index db0c803170ab..a505202086e8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S +++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S @@ -828,4 +828,6 @@ ia32_sys_call_table: .quad sys_dup3 /* 330 */ .quad sys_pipe2 .quad sys_inotify_init1 + .quad compat_sys_preadv + .quad compat_sys_pwritev ia32_syscall_end: -- cgit v1.2.3