[RFC PATCH v2 02/13] epoll: introduce user structures for polling from userspace

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This one introduces structures of user items array:

struct user_epheader -
    describes inserted epoll items.

struct user_epitem -
    single epoll item, visible to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 fs/eventpoll.c                 |  9 +++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 2cc183e86a29..f598442512f3 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
  *
  *  Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  *
+ *  Polling from userspace support by Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx>
+ *  (C) Copyright 2019 SUSE, All Rights Reserved
  */
 
 #include <linux/init.h>
@@ -109,6 +111,13 @@
 
 #define EP_ITEM_COST (sizeof(struct epitem) + sizeof(struct eppoll_entry))
 
+/*
+ * That is around 1.3mb of allocated memory for one epfd.  What is more
+ * important is ->index_length, which should be ^2, so do not increase
+ * max items number to avoid size doubling of user index.
+ */
+#define EP_USERPOLL_MAX_ITEMS_NR 65536
+
 struct epoll_filefd {
 	struct file *file;
 	int fd;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h b/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h
index 39dfc29f0f52..690a625ddeb2 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h
@@ -79,4 +79,23 @@ struct epoll_event {
 	__u64 data;
 } EPOLL_PACKED;
 
+struct epoll_uitem {
+	__poll_t ready_events;
+	struct epoll_event event;
+};
+
+#define EPOLL_USERPOLL_HEADER_SIZE  128
+#define EPOLL_USERPOLL_HEADER_MAGIC 0xeb01eb01
+
+struct epoll_uheader {
+	u32 magic;          /* epoll user header magic */
+	u32 header_length;  /* length of the header + items */
+	u32 index_length;   /* length of the index ring, always pow2 */
+	u32 max_items_nr;   /* max number of items */
+	u32 head;           /* updated by userland */
+	u32 tail;           /* updated by kernel */
+
+	struct epoll_uitem items[] __aligned(EPOLL_USERPOLL_HEADER_SIZE);
+};
+
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_EVENTPOLL_H */
-- 
2.19.1




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