On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:39:18PM -0800, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 08:22:22PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Fix the discussion of the limitations on the dest_count and src_length
> > parameters to the fideduperange ioctl to reflect what's actually in the
> > kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 | 12 +++++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
> > index 2112d10..59f0ea9 100644
> > --- a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
> > +++ b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
> > @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct file_dedupe_range_info {
> > .in
> >
> > Each deduplication operation targets
> > -.IR length
> > +.IR src_length
> > bytes in file descriptor
> > .IR dest_fd
> > at offset
> > @@ -108,8 +108,14 @@ During the call,
> > must be open for reading and
> > .IR dest_fd
> > must be open for writing.
> > -For any call to this ioctl, there may not be more than 65,536
> > -requests attached; each request may not exceed 16MiB.
> > +The combined size of the struct
> > +.IR file_dedupe_range
> > +and the struct
> > +.IR file_dedupe_range_info
> > +array must not exceed the system page size.
> > +The maximum size of
> > +.IR src_length
> > +is filesystem dependent and is typically 16MiB.
> > By convention, the storage used by
> > .IR src_fd
> > is mapped into
>
> Might be worth it to clarify that the file_dedupe_range_info limit is a
> hard limit that will result in an error if exceeded and that the
> src_length limit is silently enforced. These semantics suck...
Yeah... :(
Anyway I'll post a v2 patch.
--D
>
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> Omar
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