From 875f1d0769cdcfe1596ff0ca609b453359e42ec9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:05:25 -0700 Subject: iov_iter: add ITER_BVEC_FLAG_NO_REF flag For ITER_BVEC, if we're holding on to kernel pages, the caller doesn't need to grab a reference to the bvec pages, and drop that same reference on IO completion. This is essentially safe for any ITER_BVEC, but some use cases end up reusing pages and uncondtionally dropping a page reference on completion. And example of that is sendfile(2), that ends up being a splice_in + splice_out on the pipe pages. Add a flag that tells us it's fine to not grab a page reference to the bvec pages, since that caller knows not to drop a reference when it's done with the pages. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/uio.h | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/uio.h') diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h index ecf584f6b82d..4e926641fa80 100644 --- a/include/linux/uio.h +++ b/include/linux/uio.h @@ -23,14 +23,23 @@ struct kvec { }; enum iter_type { - ITER_IOVEC = 0, - ITER_KVEC = 2, - ITER_BVEC = 4, - ITER_PIPE = 8, - ITER_DISCARD = 16, + /* set if ITER_BVEC doesn't hold a bv_page ref */ + ITER_BVEC_FLAG_NO_REF = 2, + + /* iter types */ + ITER_IOVEC = 4, + ITER_KVEC = 8, + ITER_BVEC = 16, + ITER_PIPE = 32, + ITER_DISCARD = 64, }; struct iov_iter { + /* + * Bit 0 is the read/write bit, set if we're writing. + * Bit 1 is the BVEC_FLAG_NO_REF bit, set if type is a bvec and + * the caller isn't expecting to drop a page reference when done. + */ unsigned int type; size_t iov_offset; size_t count; @@ -84,6 +93,11 @@ static inline unsigned char iov_iter_rw(const struct iov_iter *i) return i->type & (READ | WRITE); } +static inline bool iov_iter_bvec_no_ref(const struct iov_iter *i) +{ + return (i->type & ITER_BVEC_FLAG_NO_REF) != 0; +} + /* * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec. * -- cgit