This patchset was begun by Zach Brown and was originally submitted for review in October, 2009. Feedback was positive, and I have picked up where he left off, porting his patches to the latest mainline kernel and adding support more file systems. This patch series adds a kernel interface to fs/aio.c so that kernel code can issue concurrent asynchronous IO to file systems. It adds an aio command and file system methods which specify io memory with pages instead of userspace addresses. This series was written to reduce the current overhead loop imposes by performing synchronus buffered file system IO from a kernel thread. These patches turn loop into a light weight layer that translates bios into iocbs. It introduces new file ops, read_iter() and write_iter(), that replace the aio_read() and aio_write() operations. The iov_iter structure can now contain either a user-space iovec or a kernel-space bio_vec. Since it would be overly complicated to replace every instance of aio_read() and aio_write(), the old operations are not removed, but file systems implementing the new ones need not keep the old ones. The biggest change since the last posting is that the vfs will now call read/write_iter() instead of aio_read/write() whenever the former is defined. This eliminates the need for the file system having to support both the old and new interfaces. I have also added support to more filesystems, and simplified swap over nfs. These patches apply to 3.7-rc6 and are also available at: git://github.com/kleikamp/linux-shaggy.git loop_v4 Asias He (1): block_dev: add support for read_iter, write_iter Dave Kleikamp (17): iov_iter: iov_iter_copy_from_user() should use non-atomic copy fuse: convert fuse to use iov_iter_copy_[to|from]_user dio: Convert direct_IO to use iov_iter dio: add bio_vec support to __blockdev_direct_IO() fs: create file_readable() and file_writable() functions fs: use read_iter and write_iter rather than aio_read and aio_write fs: add read_iter and write_iter to several file systems ext4: add support for read_iter and write_iter nfs: add support for read_iter, write_iter nfs: simplify swap btrfs: add support for read_iter and write_iter xfs: add support for read_iter and write_iter gfs2: Convert aio_read/write ops to read/write_iter udf: convert file ops from aio_read/write to read/write_iter afs: add support for read_iter and write_iter ecrpytfs: Convert aio_read/write ops to read/write_iter ubifs: convert file ops from aio_read/write to read/write_iter Zach Brown (13): iov_iter: move into its own file iov_iter: add copy_to_user support iov_iter: hide iovec details behind ops function pointers iov_iter: add bvec support iov_iter: add a shorten call iov_iter: let callers extract iovecs and bio_vecs dio: create a dio_aligned() helper function fs: pull iov_iter use higher up the stack aio: add aio_kernel_() interface aio: add aio support for iov_iter arguments bio: add bvec_length(), like iov_length() loop: use aio to perform io on the underlying file ocfs2: add support for read_iter, write_iter, and direct_IO_bvec Documentation/filesystems/Locking | 6 +- Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt | 12 +- drivers/block/loop.c | 136 +++++++++--- drivers/char/raw.c | 4 +- drivers/mtd/nand/nandsim.c | 4 +- drivers/staging/ccg/storage_common.c | 4 +- drivers/usb/gadget/storage_common.c | 4 +- fs/9p/vfs_addr.c | 12 +- fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 8 +- fs/adfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/affs/file.c | 4 +- fs/afs/file.c | 4 +- fs/afs/internal.h | 3 +- fs/afs/write.c | 9 +- fs/aio.c | 170 ++++++++++++++- fs/bad_inode.c | 14 ++ fs/bfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/block_dev.c | 26 ++- fs/btrfs/file.c | 42 ++-- fs/btrfs/inode.c | 61 +++--- fs/ceph/addr.c | 3 +- fs/cifs/file.c | 4 +- fs/compat.c | 10 +- fs/direct-io.c | 253 +++++++++++++++------- fs/ecryptfs/file.c | 15 +- fs/exofs/file.c | 4 +- fs/ext2/file.c | 4 +- fs/ext2/inode.c | 8 +- fs/ext3/file.c | 4 +- fs/ext3/inode.c | 15 +- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 3 +- fs/ext4/file.c | 34 +-- fs/ext4/indirect.c | 16 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 27 ++- fs/fat/file.c | 4 +- fs/fat/inode.c | 10 +- fs/fuse/file.c | 40 ++-- fs/gfs2/aops.c | 7 +- fs/gfs2/file.c | 21 +- fs/hfs/inode.c | 11 +- fs/hfsplus/inode.c | 10 +- fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 4 +- fs/hpfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/jffs2/file.c | 8 +- fs/jfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/jfs/inode.c | 7 +- fs/logfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/minix/file.c | 4 +- fs/nfs/direct.c | 294 +++++++++++++++++--------- fs/nfs/file.c | 33 ++- fs/nfs/internal.h | 4 +- fs/nfs/nfs4file.c | 4 +- fs/nilfs2/file.c | 4 +- fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 8 +- fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 8 +- fs/ocfs2/aops.h | 2 +- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 53 ++--- fs/ocfs2/inode.h | 2 - fs/ocfs2/ocfs2_trace.h | 6 +- fs/omfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c | 4 +- fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c | 4 +- fs/read_write.c | 66 +++++- fs/read_write.h | 4 + fs/reiserfs/file.c | 4 +- fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 7 +- fs/romfs/mmap-nommu.c | 2 +- fs/sysv/file.c | 4 +- fs/ubifs/file.c | 12 +- fs/udf/file.c | 13 +- fs/udf/inode.c | 10 +- fs/ufs/file.c | 4 +- fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 13 +- fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 51 ++--- include/linux/aio.h | 18 ++ include/linux/bio.h | 8 + include/linux/fs.h | 155 ++++++++++++-- include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 13 +- include/uapi/linux/aio_abi.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/loop.h | 1 + mm/Makefile | 2 +- mm/filemap.c | 395 +++++++++++++++-------------------- mm/iov-iter.c | 384 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/page_io.c | 15 +- 84 files changed, 1789 insertions(+), 893 deletions(-) create mode 100644 mm/iov-iter.c -- 1.8.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
