copy_file_range() is a new system call for copying ranges of data completely in the kernel. This gives filesystems an opportunity to implement some kind of "copy acceleration", such as reflinks or server-side-copy (in the case of NFS). Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v6: - Updates for removing most flags --- man2/copy_file_range.2 | 204 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ man2/splice.2 | 1 + 2 files changed, 205 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man2/copy_file_range.2 diff --git a/man2/copy_file_range.2 b/man2/copy_file_range.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c52c85 --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/copy_file_range.2 @@ -0,0 +1,204 @@ +.\"This manpage is Copyright (C) 2015 Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> +.\" +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM) +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of +.\" this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that +.\" the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of +.\" a permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. 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The author(s) may. +.\" not have taken the same level of care in the production of this. +.\" manual, which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working. +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" %%%LICENSE_END +.\" +.TH COPY 2 2015-10-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +copy_file_range \- Copy a range of data from one file to another +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <linux/fs.h> +.B #include <sys/syscall.h> +.B #include <unistd.h> + +.BI "ssize_t copy_file_range(int " fd_in ", loff_t *" off_in ", int " fd_out ", +.BI " loff_t *" off_out ", size_t " len \ +", unsigned int " flags ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR copy_file_range () +system call performs an in-kernel copy between two file descriptors +without the additional cost of transferring data from the kernel to userspace +and then back into the kernel. +It copies up to +.I len +bytes of data from file descriptor +.I fd_in +to file descriptor +.IR fd_out , +overwriting any data that exists within the requested range of the target file. + +The following semantics apply for +.IR off_in , +and similar statements apply to +.IR off_out : +.IP * 3 +If +.I off_in +is NULL, then bytes are read from +.I fd_in +starting from the current file offset, and the offset is +adjusted by the number of bytes copied. +.IP * +If +.I off_in +is not NULL, then +.I off_in +must point to a buffer that specifies the starting +offset where bytes from +.I fd_in +will be read. The current file offset of +.I fd_in +is not changed, but +.I off_in +is adjusted appropriately. +.PP + +The +.I flags +argument can have the following flag set: +.TP 1.9i +.B COPY_FR_REFLINK +Create a lightweight "reflink", where data is not copied until +one of the files is modified. +.PP +The default behavior +.RI ( flags +== 0) is to perform a full data copy of the requested range. +.SH RETURN VALUE +Upon successful completion, +.BR copy_file_range () +will return the number of bytes copied between files. +This could be less than the length originally requested. + +On error, +.BR copy_file_range () +returns \-1 and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EBADF +One or more file descriptors are not valid; or +.I fd_in +is not open for reading; or +.I fd_out +is not open for writing. +.TP +.B EINVAL +Requested range extends beyond the end of the source file; or the +.I flags +argument is set to an invalid value. +.TP +.B EIO +A low level I/O error occurred while copying. +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Out of memory. +.TP +.B ENOSPC +There is not enough space on the target filesystem to complete the copy. +.TP +.B EOPNOTSUPP +.B COPY_REFLINK +was specified in +.IR flags , +but the target filesystem does not support reflinks. +.TP +.B EXDEV +.IR file_in " and " file_out +are not on the same mounted filesystem. +.SH VERSIONS +The +.BR copy_file_range () +system call first appeared in Linux 4.4. +.SH CONFORMING TO +The +.BR copy_file_range () +system call is a nonstandard Linux extension. +.SH EXAMPLE +.nf +#define _GNU_SOURCE +#include <fcntl.h> +#include <linux/fs.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <sys/stat.h> +#include <sys/syscall.h> +#include <unistd.h> + +loff_t copy_file_range(int fd_in, loff_t *off_in, int fd_out, + loff_t *off_out, size_t len, unsigned int flags) +{ + return syscall(__NR_copy_file_range, fd_in, off_in, fd_out, + off_out, len, flags); +} + +int main(int argc, char **argv) +{ + int fd_in, fd_out; + struct stat stat; + loff_t len, ret; + char buf[2]; + + if (argc != 3) { + fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <source> <destination>\\n", argv[0]); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + fd_in = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); + if (fd_in == \-1) { + perror("open (argv[1])"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + if (fstat(fd_in, &stat) == \-1) { + perror("fstat"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + len = stat.st_size; + + fd_out = open(argv[2], O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC, 0644); + if (fd_out == \-1) { + perror("open (argv[2])"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + do { + ret = copy_file_range(fd_in, NULL, fd_out, NULL, len, 0); + if (ret == \-1) { + perror("copy_file_range"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + + len \-= ret; + } while (len > 0); + + close(fd_in); + close(fd_out); + exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); +} +.fi +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR splice (2) diff --git a/man2/splice.2 b/man2/splice.2 index b9b4f42..5c162e0 100644 --- a/man2/splice.2 +++ b/man2/splice.2 @@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ only pointers are copied, not the pages of the buffer. See .BR tee (2). .SH SEE ALSO +.BR copy_file_range (2), .BR sendfile (2), .BR tee (2), .BR vmsplice (2) -- 2.6.1 -- 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