[patch] readv/writev rework

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 03:30:07 EST


(Ripping out a few things for final review here....)

This is Janet Morgan's patch which converts the readv/writev code
to submit all segments for IO before waiting on them, rather than
submitting each segment separately.

This is a critical performance fix for O_DIRECT reads and writes.
Prior to this change, O_DIRECT vectored IO was forced to wait for
completion against each segment of the iovec rather than submitting all
segments and waiting on the lot. ie: for ten segments, this code will
be ten times faster.

There will also be moderate improvements for buffered IO - smaller code
paths, plus writev() only takes i_sem once.

The patch ended up quite large unfortunately - turned out that the only
sane way to implement this without duplicating significant amounts of
code (the generic_file_write() bounds checking, all the O_DIRECT
handling, etc) was to redo generic_file_read() and generic_file_write()
to take an iovec/nr_segs pair rather than `buf, count'.

New exported functions generic_file_readv() and generic_file_writev()
have been added:

ssize_t generic_file_readv(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos);
ssize_t generic_file_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t * ppos);

If a driver does not use these in their file_operations then they will
continue to use the old readv/writev code, which sits in a loop calling
calls fops->read() or fops->write().

ext2, ext3, JFS and the blockdev driver are currently using this
capability.

Some coding cleanups were made in fs/read_write.c. Mainly:

- pass "READ" or "WRITE" around to indicate the diretion of the
  operation, rather than the (confusing, inverted)
  VERIFY_READ/VERIFY_WRITE.

- Use the identifier `nr_segs' everywhere to indicate the iovec
  length rather than `count', which is often used to indicate the
  number of bytes in the syscall. It was confusing the heck out of me.

- Some cleanups to the raw driver.

- Some additional generality in fs/direct_io.c: the core `struct dio'
  used to be a "populate-and-go" thing. Janet has broken that up so
  you can initialise a struct dio once, then loop around feeding it
  more file segments, then wait on completion against everything.

- In a couple of places we needed to handle the situation where we
  knew, a-priori, that the user was going to get a short read or write.
  File size limit exceeded, read past i_size, etc. We handled that by
  shortening the iovec in-place with iov_shorten(). Which is not
  particularly pretty, but neither were the alternatives.

The performance benefits are much, much greater than I expected. Here
is Janet's report:

I used a derivative of one of the LTP dio tests and the raw interface
to get the following data points:

IO type: Vector io patch is:

Random writev 8.7 times faster
Sequential writev 6.6 times faster

Random readv not faster, but sys time improves 5x
Sequential readv not faster, but sys time improves 5x

Random mixed I/O 5 times faster
Sequential mixed I/O 6.6 times faster

Each raw readv or writev was for 32K (4k x 8). I used a disk attached to
an aic controller.

Please let me know if you'd like a different set of data or whether I
should repeat using O_DIRECT.

I've attached below the time and vmstat output for each test.
P.S. Test times between say "Random writev" and "Random readv" should
not be compared because I may have varied the number of times through
the main testloop.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Random writev

before patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3772016 6564 61128 0 0 0 669 1176 346 0 0 100

real 0m14.254s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.048s

after patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3771980 6568 61128 0 0 0 5920 1195 376 0 0 100

real 0m1.628s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.009s

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sequential writev

before patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3771912 6620 61132 0 0 0 652 1170 330 0 0 100

real 0m14.853s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.060s

after patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3771852 6636 61132 0 0 0 4352 1143 278 0 0 100

real 0m2.238s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.011s

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Random readv

before patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3771712 6732 61136 0 0 20012 0 6011 10012 0 4 96

real 0m4.760s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.651s

after patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3769908 7924 61500 0 0 21440 0 1678 1346 0 3 97

real 0m4.510s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.125s

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sequential readv

before patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3769340 7276 62832 0 0 20052 0 6020 10030 0 4 96

real 0m4.797s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.684s

after patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3769320 7244 62832 0 0 21344 0 1674 1338 0 2 98

real 0m4.545s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.119s

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Random mixed I/O

before patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3770012 7884 61500 0 0 592 592 1303 596 0 2 98

real 0m16.237s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.111s

after patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3770044 7840 61500 0 0 3104 3104 1201 392 0 0 100

real 0m3.193s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.017s

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sequential mixed I/O

before patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3769232 7344 62832 0 0 640 648 1329 648 0 0 100

real 0m14.863s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.106s

after patch:

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
0 1 0 0 3769192 7384 62832 0 0 4192 4197 1274 540 0 0 100

real 0m2.256s
user 0m0.002s
sys 0m0.023s

 drivers/char/raw.c | 54 ++++++++++++++-------
 fs/block_dev.c | 52 ++++++++++++--------
 fs/direct-io.c | 132 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 fs/ext2/file.c | 2
 fs/ext2/inode.c | 8 +--
 fs/ext3/file.c | 22 ++++----
 fs/ext3/inode.c | 10 ++-
 fs/jfs/file.c | 2
 fs/jfs/inode.c | 8 +--
 fs/read_write.c | 109 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 include/linux/fs.h | 19 ++++---
 include/linux/uio.h | 15 +++++
 kernel/ksyms.c | 4 +
 mm/filemap.c | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 14 files changed, 363 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-)

--- 2.5.34/drivers/char/raw.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/drivers/char/raw.c Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
@@ -201,25 +201,29 @@ out:
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-rw_raw_dev(int rw, struct file *filp, char *buf, size_t size, loff_t *offp)
+rw_raw_dev(int rw, struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *offp)
 {
         const int minor = minor(filp->f_dentry->d_inode->i_rdev);
         struct block_device *bdev = raw_devices[minor].binding;
         struct inode *inode = bdev->bd_inode;
+ size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
         ssize_t ret = 0;
 
- if (size == 0)
- goto out;
- ret = -EINVAL;
- if (size < 0)
- goto out;
- ret = -ENXIO;
- if (*offp >= inode->i_size)
- goto out;
-
- if (size + *offp > inode->i_size)
- size = inode->i_size - *offp;
- ret = generic_file_direct_IO(rw, inode, buf, *offp, size);
+ if (count == 0)
+ goto out;
+
+ if ((ssize_t)count < 0)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (*offp >= inode->i_size)
+ return -ENXIO;
+
+ if (count + *offp > inode->i_size) {
+ count = inode->i_size - *offp;
+ nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs, count);
+ }
+ ret = generic_file_direct_IO(rw, inode, iov, *offp, nr_segs);
+
         if (ret > 0)
                 *offp += ret;
 out:
@@ -227,15 +231,31 @@ out:
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-raw_read(struct file *filp, char * buf, size_t size, loff_t *offp)
+raw_read(struct file *filp, char *buf, size_t size, loff_t *offp)
 {
- return rw_raw_dev(READ, filp, buf, size, offp);
+ struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = size};
+
+ return rw_raw_dev(READ, filp, &local_iov, 1, offp);
 }
 
 static ssize_t
 raw_write(struct file *filp, const char *buf, size_t size, loff_t *offp)
 {
- return rw_raw_dev(WRITE, filp, (char *)buf, size, offp);
+ struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = size};
+
+ return rw_raw_dev(WRITE, filp, &local_iov, 1, offp);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+raw_readv(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *offp)
+{
+ return rw_raw_dev(READ, filp, iov, nr_segs, offp);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+raw_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *offp)
+{
+ return rw_raw_dev(WRITE, filp, iov, nr_segs, offp);
 }
 
 static struct file_operations raw_fops = {
@@ -244,6 +264,8 @@ static struct file_operations raw_fops =
         .open = raw_open,
         .release= raw_release,
         .ioctl = raw_ioctl,
+ .readv = raw_readv,
+ .writev = raw_writev,
         .owner = THIS_MODULE,
 };
 
--- 2.5.34/fs/block_dev.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/block_dev.c Wed Sep 11 01:05:34 2002
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ blkdev_get_blocks(struct inode *inode, s
 }
 
 static int
-blkdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, char *buf,
- loff_t offset, size_t count)
+blkdev_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+ loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
- return generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, buf, offset,
- count, blkdev_get_blocks);
+ return generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, iov, offset,
+ nr_segs, blkdev_get_blocks);
 }
 
 static int blkdev_writepage(struct page * page)
@@ -787,6 +787,14 @@ static int blkdev_reread_part(struct blo
         return res;
 }
 
+static ssize_t blkdev_file_write(struct file *file, const char *buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void *)buf, .iov_len = count };
+
+ return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
+}
+
 static int blkdev_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, unsigned cmd,
                         unsigned long arg)
 {
@@ -832,26 +840,28 @@ static int blkdev_ioctl(struct inode *in
 }
 
 struct address_space_operations def_blk_aops = {
- readpage: blkdev_readpage,
- writepage: blkdev_writepage,
- sync_page: block_sync_page,
- prepare_write: blkdev_prepare_write,
- commit_write: blkdev_commit_write,
- writepages: generic_writepages,
- vm_writeback: generic_vm_writeback,
- direct_IO: blkdev_direct_IO,
+ .readpage = blkdev_readpage,
+ .writepage = blkdev_writepage,
+ .sync_page = block_sync_page,
+ .prepare_write = blkdev_prepare_write,
+ .commit_write = blkdev_commit_write,
+ .writepages = generic_writepages,
+ .vm_writeback = generic_vm_writeback,
+ .direct_IO = blkdev_direct_IO,
 };
 
 struct file_operations def_blk_fops = {
- open: blkdev_open,
- release: blkdev_close,
- llseek: block_llseek,
- read: generic_file_read,
- write: generic_file_write_nolock,
- mmap: generic_file_mmap,
- fsync: block_fsync,
- ioctl: blkdev_ioctl,
- sendfile: generic_file_sendfile,
+ .open = blkdev_open,
+ .release = blkdev_close,
+ .llseek = block_llseek,
+ .read = generic_file_read,
+ .write = blkdev_file_write,
+ .mmap = generic_file_mmap,
+ .fsync = block_fsync,
+ .ioctl = blkdev_ioctl,
+ .readv = generic_file_readv,
+ .writev = generic_file_writev,
+ .sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
 };
 
 int ioctl_by_bdev(struct block_device *bdev, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
--- 2.5.34/fs/direct-io.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/direct-io.c Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct dio {
  */
 static inline unsigned dio_pages_present(struct dio *dio)
 {
- return dio->head - dio->tail;
+ return dio->tail - dio->head;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -265,6 +265,10 @@ static int dio_bio_complete(struct dio *
 static int dio_await_completion(struct dio *dio)
 {
         int ret = 0;
+
+ if (dio->bio)
+ dio_bio_submit(dio);
+
         while (atomic_read(&dio->bio_count)) {
                 struct bio *bio = dio_await_one(dio);
                 int ret2;
@@ -523,29 +527,16 @@ out:
         return ret;
 }
 
-/*
- * The main direct-IO function. This is a library function for use by
- * filesystem drivers.
- */
 int
-generic_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, char *buf, loff_t offset,
- size_t count, get_blocks_t get_blocks)
+direct_io_worker(int rw, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+ loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs, get_blocks_t get_blocks)
 {
         const unsigned blkbits = inode->i_blkbits;
- const unsigned blocksize_mask = (1 << blkbits) - 1;
- const unsigned long user_addr = (unsigned long)buf;
- int ret;
- int ret2;
+ unsigned long user_addr;
+ int seg, ret2, ret = 0;
         struct dio dio;
- size_t bytes;
-
- /* Check the memory alignment. Blocks cannot straddle pages */
- if ((user_addr & blocksize_mask) || (count & blocksize_mask)) {
- ret = -EINVAL;
- goto out;
- }
+ size_t bytes, tot_bytes = 0;
 
- /* BIO submission state */
         dio.bio = NULL;
         dio.bvec = NULL;
         dio.inode = inode;
@@ -553,31 +544,13 @@ generic_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *
         dio.blkbits = blkbits;
         dio.block_in_file = offset >> blkbits;
         dio.blocks_available = 0;
- dio.final_block_in_request = (offset + count) >> blkbits;
 
- /* Index into the first page of the first block */
- dio.first_block_in_page = (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) >> blkbits;
         dio.boundary = 0;
         dio.reap_counter = 0;
         dio.get_blocks = get_blocks;
         dio.last_block_in_bio = -1;
         dio.next_block_in_bio = -1;
 
- /* Page fetching state */
- dio.curr_page = 0;
- bytes = count;
- dio.total_pages = 0;
- if (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) {
- dio.total_pages++;
- bytes -= PAGE_SIZE - (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
- }
-
- dio.total_pages += (bytes + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE;
- dio.curr_user_address = user_addr;
-
- /* Page queue */
- dio.head = 0;
- dio.tail = 0;
         dio.page_errors = 0;
 
         /* BIO completion state */
@@ -586,38 +559,75 @@ generic_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *
         dio.bio_list = NULL;
         dio.waiter = NULL;
 
- ret = do_direct_IO(&dio);
+ for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
+ user_addr = (unsigned long)iov[seg].iov_base;
+ bytes = iov[seg].iov_len;
+
+ /* Index into the first page of the first block */
+ dio.first_block_in_page = (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) >> blkbits;
+ dio.final_block_in_request = dio.block_in_file + (bytes >> blkbits);
+ /* Page fetching state */
+ dio.head = 0;
+ dio.tail = 0;
+ dio.curr_page = 0;
+
+ dio.total_pages = 0;
+ if (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE-1)) {
+ dio.total_pages++;
+ bytes -= PAGE_SIZE - (user_addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));
+ }
+ dio.total_pages += (bytes + PAGE_SIZE - 1) / PAGE_SIZE;
+ dio.curr_user_address = user_addr;
+
+ ret = do_direct_IO(&dio);
+
+ if (ret) {
+ dio_cleanup(&dio);
+ break;
+ }
+
+ tot_bytes += iov[seg].iov_len - ((dio.final_block_in_request -
+ dio.block_in_file) << blkbits);
+
+ } /* end iovec loop */
 
- if (dio.bio)
- dio_bio_submit(&dio);
- if (ret)
- dio_cleanup(&dio);
         ret2 = dio_await_completion(&dio);
         if (ret == 0)
                 ret = ret2;
         if (ret == 0)
                 ret = dio.page_errors;
         if (ret == 0)
- ret = count - ((dio.final_block_in_request -
- dio.block_in_file) << blkbits);
-out:
+ ret = tot_bytes;
+
         return ret;
 }
 
-ssize_t
-generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, char *buf,
- loff_t offset, size_t count)
+/*
+ * This is a library function for use by filesystem drivers.
+ */
+int
+generic_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+ loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs, get_blocks_t get_blocks)
 {
+ int seg;
+ size_t size;
+ unsigned long addr;
         struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
- unsigned blocksize_mask;
- ssize_t retval;
+ unsigned blocksize_mask = (1 << inode->i_blkbits) - 1;
+ ssize_t retval = -EINVAL;
 
- blocksize_mask = (1 << inode->i_blkbits) - 1;
- if ((offset & blocksize_mask) || (count & blocksize_mask)) {
- retval = -EINVAL;
+ if (offset & blocksize_mask) {
                 goto out;
         }
 
+ /* Check the memory alignment. Blocks cannot straddle pages */
+ for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
+ addr = (unsigned long)iov[seg].iov_base;
+ size = iov[seg].iov_len;
+ if ((addr & blocksize_mask) || (size & blocksize_mask))
+ goto out;
+ }
+
         if (mapping->nrpages) {
                 retval = filemap_fdatawrite(mapping);
                 if (retval == 0)
@@ -625,9 +635,21 @@ generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct in
                 if (retval)
                         goto out;
         }
- retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(rw, inode, buf, offset, count);
+
+ retval = direct_io_worker(rw, inode, iov, offset, nr_segs, get_blocks);
+out:
+ return retval;
+}
+
+ssize_t
+generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+ loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs)
+{
+ struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
+ ssize_t retval;
+
+ retval = mapping->a_ops->direct_IO(rw, inode, iov, offset, nr_segs);
         if (inode->i_mapping->nrpages)
                 invalidate_inode_pages2(inode->i_mapping);
-out:
         return retval;
 }
--- 2.5.34/fs/ext2/file.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/ext2/file.c Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ struct file_operations ext2_file_operati
         .open = generic_file_open,
         .release = ext2_release_file,
         .fsync = ext2_sync_file,
+ .readv = generic_file_readv,
+ .writev = generic_file_writev,
         .sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
 };
 
--- 2.5.34/fs/ext2/inode.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/ext2/inode.c Wed Sep 11 01:05:16 2002
@@ -619,11 +619,11 @@ ext2_get_blocks(struct inode *inode, sec
 }
 
 static int
-ext2_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, char *buf,
- loff_t offset, size_t count)
+ext2_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+ loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
- return generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, buf,
- offset, count, ext2_get_blocks);
+ return generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, iov,
+ offset, nr_segs, ext2_get_blocks);
 }
 
 static int
--- 2.5.34/fs/jfs/file.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/jfs/file.c Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ struct file_operations jfs_file_operatio
         .write = generic_file_write,
         .read = generic_file_read,
         .mmap = generic_file_mmap,
+ .readv = generic_file_readv,
+ .writev = generic_file_writev,
          .sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
         .fsync = jfs_fsync,
 };
--- 2.5.34/fs/jfs/inode.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/jfs/inode.c Wed Sep 11 01:05:16 2002
@@ -309,11 +309,11 @@ static int jfs_bmap(struct address_space
         return generic_block_bmap(mapping, block, jfs_get_block);
 }
 
-static int jfs_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, char *buf,
- loff_t offset, size_t count)
+static int jfs_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec *iov,
+ loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
- return generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, buf,
- offset, count, jfs_get_blocks);
+ return generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, iov,
+ offset, nr_segs, jfs_get_blocks);
 }
 
 struct address_space_operations jfs_aops = {
--- 2.5.34/fs/read_write.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/read_write.c Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
@@ -286,9 +286,29 @@ asmlinkage ssize_t sys_pwrite64(unsigned
         return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Reduce an iovec's length in-place. Return the resulting number of segments
+ */
+unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to)
+{
+ unsigned long seg = 0;
+ size_t len = 0;
+
+ while (seg < nr_segs) {
+ seg++;
+ if (len + iov->iov_len >= to) {
+ iov->iov_len = to - len;
+ break;
+ }
+ len += iov->iov_len;
+ iov++;
+ }
+ return seg;
+}
+
 static ssize_t do_readv_writev(int type, struct file *file,
                                const struct iovec * vector,
- unsigned long count)
+ unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
         typedef ssize_t (*io_fn_t)(struct file *, char *, size_t, loff_t *);
         typedef ssize_t (*iov_fn_t)(struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
@@ -296,73 +316,86 @@ static ssize_t do_readv_writev(int type,
         size_t tot_len;
         struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV];
         struct iovec *iov=iovstack;
- ssize_t ret, i;
+ ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
+ int seg;
         io_fn_t fn;
         iov_fn_t fnv;
         struct inode *inode;
 
         /*
+ * SuS says "The readv() function *may* fail if the iovcnt argument
+ * was less than or equal to 0, or greater than {IOV_MAX}. Linux has
+ * traditionally returned -EINVAL for zero segments, so...
+ */
+ if (nr_segs == 0)
+ goto out;
+
+ /*
          * First get the "struct iovec" from user memory and
          * verify all the pointers
          */
- ret = 0;
- if (!count)
- goto out_nofree;
- ret = -EINVAL;
- if (count > UIO_MAXIOV)
- goto out_nofree;
+ if ((nr_segs > UIO_MAXIOV) || (nr_segs <= 0))
+ goto out;
         if (!file->f_op)
- goto out_nofree;
- if (count > UIO_FASTIOV) {
+ goto out;
+ if (nr_segs > UIO_FASTIOV) {
                 ret = -ENOMEM;
- iov = kmalloc(count*sizeof(struct iovec), GFP_KERNEL);
+ iov = kmalloc(nr_segs*sizeof(struct iovec), GFP_KERNEL);
                 if (!iov)
- goto out_nofree;
+ goto out;
         }
         ret = -EFAULT;
- if (copy_from_user(iov, vector, count*sizeof(*vector)))
+ if (copy_from_user(iov, vector, nr_segs*sizeof(*vector)))
                 goto out;
 
         /*
          * Single unix specification:
- * We should -EINVAL if an element length is not >= 0 and fitting an ssize_t
- * The total length is fitting an ssize_t
+ * We should -EINVAL if an element length is not >= 0 and fitting an
+ * ssize_t. The total length is fitting an ssize_t
          *
          * Be careful here because iov_len is a size_t not an ssize_t
          */
-
         tot_len = 0;
         ret = -EINVAL;
- for (i = 0 ; i < count ; i++) {
+ for (seg = 0 ; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
                 ssize_t tmp = tot_len;
- ssize_t len = (ssize_t)iov[i].iov_len;
+ ssize_t len = (ssize_t)iov[seg].iov_len;
                 if (len < 0) /* size_t not fitting an ssize_t .. */
                         goto out;
                 tot_len += len;
                 if (tot_len < tmp) /* maths overflow on the ssize_t */
                         goto out;
         }
+ if (tot_len == 0) {
+ ret = 0;
+ goto out;
+ }
 
         inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
         /* VERIFY_WRITE actually means a read, as we write to user space */
- ret = locks_verify_area((type == VERIFY_WRITE
+ ret = locks_verify_area((type == READ
                                  ? FLOCK_VERIFY_READ : FLOCK_VERIFY_WRITE),
                                 inode, file, file->f_pos, tot_len);
- if (ret) goto out;
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
 
- fnv = (type == VERIFY_WRITE ? file->f_op->readv : file->f_op->writev);
+ fnv = NULL;
+ if (type == READ) {
+ fn = file->f_op->read;
+ fnv = file->f_op->readv;
+ } else {
+ fn = (io_fn_t)file->f_op->write;
+ fnv = file->f_op->writev;
+ }
         if (fnv) {
- ret = fnv(file, iov, count, &file->f_pos);
+ ret = fnv(file, iov, nr_segs, &file->f_pos);
                 goto out;
         }
 
- /* VERIFY_WRITE actually means a read, as we write to user space */
- fn = (type == VERIFY_WRITE ? file->f_op->read :
- (io_fn_t) file->f_op->write);
-
+ /* Do it by hand, with file-ops */
         ret = 0;
         vector = iov;
- while (count > 0) {
+ while (nr_segs > 0) {
                 void * base;
                 size_t len;
                 ssize_t nr;
@@ -370,7 +403,7 @@ static ssize_t do_readv_writev(int type,
                 base = vector->iov_base;
                 len = vector->iov_len;
                 vector++;
- count--;
+ nr_segs--;
 
                 nr = fn(file, base, len, &file->f_pos);
 
@@ -382,20 +415,18 @@ static ssize_t do_readv_writev(int type,
                 if (nr != len)
                         break;
         }
-
 out:
         if (iov != iovstack)
                 kfree(iov);
-out_nofree:
- /* VERIFY_WRITE actually means a read, as we write to user space */
- if ((ret + (type == VERIFY_WRITE)) > 0)
+ if ((ret + (type == READ)) > 0)
                 dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry,
- (type == VERIFY_WRITE) ? DN_MODIFY : DN_ACCESS);
+ (type == READ) ? DN_MODIFY : DN_ACCESS);
         return ret;
 }
 
-asmlinkage ssize_t sys_readv(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec * vector,
- unsigned long count)
+
+asmlinkage ssize_t
+sys_readv(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec *vector, unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
         struct file * file;
         ssize_t ret;
@@ -409,7 +440,7 @@ asmlinkage ssize_t sys_readv(unsigned lo
             (file->f_op->readv || file->f_op->read)) {
                 ret = security_ops->file_permission (file, MAY_READ);
                 if (!ret)
- ret = do_readv_writev(VERIFY_WRITE, file, vector, count);
+ ret = do_readv_writev(READ, file, vector, nr_segs);
         }
         fput(file);
 
@@ -417,8 +448,8 @@ bad_file:
         return ret;
 }
 
-asmlinkage ssize_t sys_writev(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec * vector,
- unsigned long count)
+asmlinkage ssize_t
+sys_writev(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec * vector, unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
         struct file * file;
         ssize_t ret;
@@ -432,7 +463,7 @@ asmlinkage ssize_t sys_writev(unsigned l
             (file->f_op->writev || file->f_op->write)) {
                 ret = security_ops->file_permission (file, MAY_WRITE);
                 if (!ret)
- ret = do_readv_writev(VERIFY_READ, file, vector, count);
+ ret = do_readv_writev(WRITE, file, vector, nr_segs);
         }
         fput(file);
 
--- 2.5.34/include/linux/fs.h~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/include/linux/fs.h Wed Sep 11 01:05:18 2002
@@ -307,8 +307,7 @@ struct address_space_operations {
         int (*bmap)(struct address_space *, long);
         int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long);
         int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int);
- int (*direct_IO)(int, struct inode *, char *buf,
- loff_t offset, size_t count);
+ int (*direct_IO)(int, struct inode *, const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs);
 };
 
 struct backing_dev_info;
@@ -1245,14 +1244,18 @@ extern int generic_file_mmap(struct file
 extern int file_read_actor(read_descriptor_t * desc, struct page *page, unsigned long offset, unsigned long size);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_read(struct file *, char *, size_t, loff_t *);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);
+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 *, struct file *, loff_t *, size_t);
 extern void do_generic_file_read(struct file *, loff_t *, read_descriptor_t *, read_actor_t);
-ssize_t generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, char *buf,
- loff_t offset, size_t count);
-int generic_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, char *buf,
- loff_t offset, size_t count, get_blocks_t *get_blocks);
-
+extern ssize_t generic_file_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode,
+ const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs);
+extern int generic_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, const struct iovec
+ *iov, loff_t offset, unsigned long nr_segs, get_blocks_t *get_blocks);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_readv(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
+ unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos);
+ssize_t generic_file_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
+ unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos);
 extern loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 extern loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 extern loff_t remote_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
--- 2.5.34/kernel/ksyms.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/kernel/ksyms.c Wed Sep 11 01:05:23 2002
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 #include <linux/highuid.h>
 #include <linux/brlock.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/tty.h>
 #include <linux/in6.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
@@ -344,6 +345,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_disk);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_dev_sector);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(init_buffer);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_file_direct_IO);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_readv);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_writev);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_shorten);
 
 /* tty routines */
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_hangup);
--- 2.5.34/mm/filemap.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/mm/filemap.c Wed Sep 11 01:05:21 2002
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/mman.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 #include <linux/iobuf.h>
 #include <linux/hash.h>
 #include <linux/writeback.h>
@@ -1121,14 +1122,18 @@ success:
  * This is the "read()" routine for all filesystems
  * that can use the page cache directly.
  */
-ssize_t
-generic_file_read(struct file *filp, char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+static ssize_t
+__generic_file_read(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
+ unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
 {
         ssize_t retval;
+ unsigned long seg;
+ size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
         if ((ssize_t) count < 0)
                 return -EINVAL;
 
+ /* coalesce the iovecs and go direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT */
         if (filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) {
                 loff_t pos = *ppos, size;
                 struct address_space *mapping;
@@ -1141,10 +1146,13 @@ generic_file_read(struct file *filp, cha
                         goto out; /* skip atime */
                 size = inode->i_size;
                 if (pos < size) {
- if (pos + count > size)
+ if (pos + count > size) {
                                 count = size - pos;
- retval = generic_file_direct_IO(READ, inode,
- buf, pos, count);
+ nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov,
+ nr_segs, count);
+ }
+ retval = generic_file_direct_IO(READ, inode,
+ iov, pos, nr_segs);
                         if (retval > 0)
                                 *ppos = pos + retval;
                 }
@@ -1152,27 +1160,42 @@ generic_file_read(struct file *filp, cha
                 goto out;
         }
 
- retval = -EFAULT;
- if (access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, buf, count)) {
- retval = 0;
+ for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
+ if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE,iov[seg].iov_base,iov[seg].iov_len))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
 
- if (count) {
+ retval = 0;
+ if (count) {
+ for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
                         read_descriptor_t desc;
 
                         desc.written = 0;
- desc.count = count;
- desc.buf = buf;
+ desc.buf = iov[seg].iov_base;
+ desc.count = iov[seg].iov_len;
+ if (desc.count == 0)
+ continue;
                         desc.error = 0;
                         do_generic_file_read(filp,ppos,&desc,file_read_actor);
- retval = desc.written;
- if (!retval)
+ retval += desc.written;
+ if (!retval) {
                                 retval = desc.error;
+ break;
+ }
                 }
         }
 out:
         return retval;
 }
 
+ssize_t
+generic_file_read(struct file *filp, char *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = count };
+
+ return __generic_file_read(filp, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
+}
+
 static int file_send_actor(read_descriptor_t * desc, struct page *page, unsigned long offset, unsigned long size)
 {
         ssize_t written;
@@ -1926,11 +1949,14 @@ filemap_copy_from_user(struct page *page
  * it for writing by marking it dirty.
  * okir@monad.swb.de
  */
-ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const char *buf,
- size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+ssize_t
+generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+ unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
 {
         struct address_space * mapping = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping;
         struct address_space_operations *a_ops = mapping->a_ops;
+ const size_t ocount = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
+ size_t count = ocount;
         struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
         unsigned long limit = current->rlim[RLIMIT_FSIZE].rlim_cur;
         long status = 0;
@@ -1942,12 +1968,19 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct
         unsigned bytes;
         time_t time_now;
         struct pagevec lru_pvec;
+ struct iovec *cur_iov;
+ unsigned iov_bytes; /* Cumulative count to the end of the
+ current iovec */
+ unsigned long seg;
+ char *buf;
 
         if (unlikely((ssize_t)count < 0))
                 return -EINVAL;
 
- if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, buf, count)))
- return -EFAULT;
+ for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
+ if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ,iov[seg].iov_base,iov[seg].iov_len))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
 
         pos = *ppos;
         if (unlikely(pos < 0))
@@ -2045,9 +2078,13 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct
                 mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
         }
 
+ /* coalesce the iovecs and go direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT */
         if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT)) {
- written = generic_file_direct_IO(WRITE, inode,
- (char *)buf, pos, count);
+ if (count != ocount)
+ nr_segs = iov_shorten((struct iovec *)iov,
+ nr_segs, count);
+ written = generic_file_direct_IO(WRITE, inode,
+ iov, pos, nr_segs);
                 if (written > 0) {
                         loff_t end = pos + written;
                         if (end > inode->i_size && !S_ISBLK(inode->i_mode)) {
@@ -2065,6 +2102,9 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct
                 goto out_status;
         }
 
+ cur_iov = (struct iovec *)iov;
+ iov_bytes = cur_iov->iov_len;
+ buf = cur_iov->iov_base;
         do {
                 unsigned long index;
                 unsigned long offset;
@@ -2075,6 +2115,8 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct
                 bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
                 if (bytes > count)
                         bytes = count;
+ if (bytes + written > iov_bytes)
+ bytes = iov_bytes - written;
 
                 /*
                  * Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_.
@@ -2084,7 +2126,7 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct
                  */
                 fault_in_pages_readable(buf, bytes);
 
- page = __grab_cache_page(mapping, index, &cached_page, &lru_pvec);
+ page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec);
                 if (!page) {
                         status = -ENOMEM;
                         break;
@@ -2115,6 +2157,11 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct
                                 count -= status;
                                 pos += status;
                                 buf += status;
+ if (written == iov_bytes && count) {
+ cur_iov++;
+ iov_bytes += cur_iov->iov_len;
+ buf = cur_iov->iov_base;
+ }
                         }
                 }
                 if (!PageReferenced(page))
@@ -2151,10 +2198,29 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *
 {
         struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping->host;
         int err;
+ struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void *)buf, .iov_len = count };
 
         down(&inode->i_sem);
- err = generic_file_write_nolock(file, buf, count, ppos);
+ err = generic_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)
+{
+ return __generic_file_read(filp, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+}
+
+ssize_t generic_file_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+ unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t * ppos)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ down(&inode->i_sem);
+ ret = generic_file_write_nolock(file, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+ up(&inode->i_sem);
+ return ret;
+}
--- 2.5.34/fs/ext3/inode.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/ext3/inode.c Wed Sep 11 01:05:31 2002
@@ -1399,13 +1399,15 @@ static int ext3_releasepage(struct page
  * If the O_DIRECT write is intantiating holes inside i_size and the machine
  * crashes then stale disk data _may_ be exposed inside the file.
  */
-static int ext3_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode, char *buf,
- loff_t offset, size_t count)
+static int ext3_direct_IO(int rw, struct inode *inode,
+ const struct iovec *iov, loff_t offset,
+ unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
         struct ext3_inode_info *ei = EXT3_I(inode);
         handle_t *handle = NULL;
         int ret;
         int orphan = 0;
+ size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
         if (rw == WRITE) {
                 loff_t final_size = offset + count;
@@ -1428,8 +1430,8 @@ static int ext3_direct_IO(int rw, struct
                 }
         }
 
- ret = generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, buf, offset,
- count, ext3_direct_io_get_blocks);
+ ret = generic_direct_IO(rw, inode, iov, offset,
+ nr_segs, ext3_direct_io_get_blocks);
 
 out_stop:
         if (handle) {
--- 2.5.34/include/linux/uio.h~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/include/linux/uio.h Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
@@ -34,4 +34,19 @@ struct iovec
                                 /* Beg pardon: BSD has 1024 --ANK */
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec
+ */
+static inline size_t iov_length(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
+{
+ unsigned long seg;
+ size_t ret = 0;
+
+ for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++)
+ ret += iov[seg].iov_len;
+ return ret;
+}
+
+unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to);
+
 #endif
--- 2.5.34/fs/ext3/file.c~readv-writev Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
+++ 2.5.34-akpm/fs/ext3/file.c Tue Sep 10 18:57:53 2002
@@ -76,19 +76,21 @@ ext3_file_write(struct file *file, const
 }
 
 struct file_operations ext3_file_operations = {
- .llseek = generic_file_llseek, /* BKL held */
- .read = generic_file_read, /* BKL not held. Don't need */
- .write = ext3_file_write, /* BKL not held. Don't need */
- .ioctl = ext3_ioctl, /* BKL held */
+ .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
+ .read = generic_file_read,
+ .write = ext3_file_write,
+ .readv = generic_file_readv,
+ .writev = generic_file_writev,
+ .ioctl = ext3_ioctl,
         .mmap = generic_file_mmap,
- .open = ext3_open_file, /* BKL not held. Don't need */
- .release = ext3_release_file, /* BKL not held. Don't need */
- .fsync = ext3_sync_file, /* BKL held */
- .sendfile = generic_file_sendfile, /* BKL not held. Don't need */
+ .open = ext3_open_file,
+ .release = ext3_release_file,
+ .fsync = ext3_sync_file,
+ .sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
 };
 
 struct inode_operations ext3_file_inode_operations = {
- .truncate = ext3_truncate, /* BKL held */
- .setattr = ext3_setattr, /* BKL held */
+ .truncate = ext3_truncate,
+ .setattr = ext3_setattr,
 };
 

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