The series is supposed to solve the locking order problems for
->splice_read() and get rid of code duplication between the read-side
methods.
pipe_lock is lifted out of ->splice_read() instances, along with
waiting for empty space in pipe, etc. - we do that stuff in callers.
A new variant of iov_iter is introduced - it's backed by a pipe,
copy_to_iter() results in allocating pages and copying into those,
copy_page_to_iter() just sticks a reference to that page into pipe.
Running out of space in pipe yields a short read, as a fault in iovec-backed
iov_iter would have. Enough primitives are implemented for normal
->read_iter() instances to work.
generic_file_splice_read() switched to feeding such iov_iter to
->read_iter() instance. That turns out to be enough to kill almost all
->splice_read() instances; the only ones _not_ using generic_file_splice_read()
or default_file_splice_read() (== no zero-copy fallback) are
fuse_dev_splice_read(), 3 instances in kernel/{relay.c,trace/trace.c} and
sock_splice_read(). It's almost certainly possible to convert fuse one
and the same might be possible to do to socket one. relay and tracing
stuff is just plain weird; might or might not be doable.
Something hopefully working is in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git #work.splice_read
Several commits in that pipe (#1, #8 and #9) are trivial cleanups and fixes
for crap caught while doing the rest, probably ought to be separated.
Shortlog:
Al Viro (11):
fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice_read()
splice_to_pipe(): don't open-code wakeup_pipe_readers()
splice: switch get_iovec_page_array() to iov_iter
splice: lift pipe_lock out of splice_to_pipe()
skb_splice_bits(): get rid of callback
new helper: add_to_pipe()
fuse_dev_splice_read(): switch to add_to_pipe()
cifs: don't use memcpy() to copy struct iov_iter
fuse_ioctl_copy_user(): don't open-code copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
new iov_iter flavour: pipe-backed
switch generic_file_splice_read() to use of ->read_iter()
Diffstat:
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c | 70 +--
.../staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h | 15 +-
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/vvp_internal.h | 14 -
drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/vvp_io.c | 45 +-
fs/cifs/file.c | 14 +-
fs/coda/file.c | 23 +-
fs/fuse/dev.c | 48 +-
fs/fuse/file.c | 30 +-
fs/gfs2/file.c | 28 +-
fs/nfs/file.c | 25 +-
fs/nfs/internal.h | 2 -
fs/nfs/nfs4file.c | 2 +-
fs/ocfs2/file.c | 34 +-
fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h | 2 -
fs/splice.c | 578 +++++++--------------
fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 41 +-
fs/xfs/xfs_trace.h | 1 -
include/linux/fs.h | 2 -
include/linux/skbuff.h | 8 +-
include/linux/splice.h | 3 +
include/linux/uio.h | 14 +-
kernel/trace/trace.c | 14 +-
lib/iov_iter.c | 390 +++++++++++++-
mm/shmem.c | 115 +---
net/core/skbuff.c | 28 +-
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 3 +-
net/kcm/kcmsock.c | 16 +-
net/unix/af_unix.c | 17 +-
28 files changed, 648 insertions(+), 934 deletions(-)
It's not all I would like to do there (in particular, I hadn't
done fuse splice_read conversion to read_iter, even though it does appear
to be doable; that'll take copy_page_to_iter_nosteal() as a new primitive
+ considerable amount of massage in fs/fuse/dev.c), but it should at least
* make pipe lock the outermost
* switch generic_file_splice_read() to ->read_iter(), making
it suitable for lustre/coda/gfs2/ocfs2/xfs/shmem without any wrappers
* somewhat simplify socket ->splice_read() guts (not by much - to
start doing that right we'd need the same new primitive)
* remove a considerable pile of code.
* get rid of a bunch of splice_{grow,shrink}_spd/splice_to_pipe
callers; remaining ones are in default_file_splice_read() (trivially
killable by conversion to iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(), followed by the same
build iovec array + use kernel_readv as we do now + iov_iter_advance to
the length returned by kernel_readv), kernel/relay and kernel/trace/trace.c
ones (should switch to add_to_pipe(), AFAICS) and skb_splice_bits()
(again, a matter of copy_page_to_iter_nosteal(), which will take out
spd_can_coalesce/spd_fill_page in there as well). Once the remaining ones
are taken care of, splice_pipe_desc and friends will go away.
In its current form it survives LTP, xfstests and overlayfs testsuite;
if anybody has additional tests for splice and friends, I would like to hear
about such. It really needs more beating, though.
Please, help with review and testing.
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