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Gerd Hoffmann f3554f4bc6 preadv/pwritev: Add preadv and pwritev system calls. 
This patch adds preadv and pwritev system calls.  These syscalls are a
pretty straightforward combination of pread and readv (same for write).
They are quite useful for doing vectored I/O in threaded applications.
Using lseek+readv instead opens race windows you'll have to plug with
locking.

Other systems have such system calls too, for example NetBSD, check
here: http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/preadv.2.html

The application-visible interface provided by glibc should look like
this to be compatible to the existing implementations in the *BSD family:

  ssize_t preadv(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset);
  ssize_t pwritev(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset);

This prototype has one problem though: On 32bit archs is the (64bit)
offset argument unaligned, which the syscall ABI of several archs doesn't
allow to do.  At least s390 needs a wrapper in glibc to handle this.  As
we'll need a wrappers in glibc anyway I've decided to push problem to
glibc entriely and use a syscall prototype which works without
arch-specific wrappers inside the kernel: The offset argument is
explicitly splitted into two 32bit values.

The patch sports the actual system call implementation and the windup in
the x86 system call tables.  Other archs follow as separate patches.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02 19:05:08 -07:00
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uv sgi-gru: add macros for using the UV hub to send interrupts 2009-04-02 19:05:05 -07:00
visws
xen Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/debug', 'x86/kconfig', 'x86/mm', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/setup' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc8' into x86/core 2009-03-14 16:25:40 +01:00
a.out-core.h x86: add %gs accessors for x86_32 2009-02-10 00:41:58 +01:00
a.out.h
acpi.h x86: use early_ioremap in __acpi_map_table 2009-02-09 13:33:51 +01:00
aes.h crypto: aes - Export x86 AES encrypt/decrypt functions 2009-02-18 16:48:05 +08:00
agp.h
alternative-asm.h
alternative.h
amd_iommu.h
amd_iommu_types.h AMD IOMMU: add init code for statistic collection 2009-01-03 14:11:58 +01:00
apic.h Revert "x86: don't compile vsmp_64 for 32bit" 2009-03-25 21:34:28 +01:00
apicdef.h x86, mce, cmci: define MSR names and fields for new CMCI registers 2009-02-24 13:41:00 -08:00
apicnum.h irq: initialize nr_irqs based on nr_cpu_ids 2009-01-11 19:13:38 +01:00
apm.h x86: move mach-default/*.h files to asm/ 2009-01-29 14:16:51 +01:00
asm.h
atomic.h
atomic_32.h atomic_t: unify all arch definitions 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
atomic_64.h atomic_t: unify all arch definitions 2009-01-06 15:59:10 -08:00
auxvec.h
bios_ebda.h
bitops.h x86, generic: mark complex bitops.h inlines as __always_inline 2009-01-13 18:56:30 +01:00
boot.h x86: remove zImage support 2009-03-11 11:00:00 -07:00
bootparam.h
bug.h
bugs.h
byteorder.h byteorder: make swab.h include asm/swab.h like a regular header 2009-01-14 19:56:50 -08:00
cache.h
cacheflush.h x86, CPA: Add set_pages_arrayuc and set_pages_array_wb 2009-03-20 10:34:49 +01:00
calgary.h
calling.h x86: document 64-bit and 32-bit function call convention ABI 2009-02-03 19:48:18 +01:00
checksum.h
checksum_32.h
checksum_64.h
cmpxchg.h
cmpxchg_32.h
cmpxchg_64.h
compat.h
cpu.h x86: generalize boot_cpu_id 2009-01-29 14:17:01 +01:00
cpu_debug.h x86: cpu_debug add support for various AMD CPUs 2009-03-14 18:07:58 +01:00
cpufeature.h crypto: aes-ni - Add support to Intel AES-NI instructions for x86_64 platform 2009-02-18 16:48:06 +08:00
cpumask.h x86: move setup_cpu_local_masks() 2009-01-27 12:56:47 +09:00
cputime.h
current.h x86-64: Move current task from PDA to per-cpu and consolidate with 32-bit. 2009-01-19 00:38:58 +09:00
debugreg.h
delay.h
desc.h x86: cpu architecture debug code, build fix, cleanup 2009-03-11 14:52:03 +01:00
desc_defs.h
device.h x86, ia64: convert to use generic dma_map_ops struct 2009-01-06 14:06:57 +01:00
div64.h
dma-mapping.h dma-debug: x86 architecture bindings 2009-03-17 12:56:46 +01:00
dma.h
dmi.h x86/dmi: fix dmi_alloc() section mismatches 2009-03-23 17:20:50 +01:00
do_timer.h x86: move mach-default/*.h files to asm/ 2009-01-29 14:16:51 +01:00
ds.h
dwarf2.h
e820.h x86: e820 fix various signedness issues in setup.c and e820.c 2009-03-23 15:02:05 +05:30
edac.h
efi.h x86: EFI: Back efi_ioremap with init_memory_mapping instead of FIX_MAP 2009-03-04 19:20:16 +01:00
elf.h x86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32 2009-02-10 00:42:00 +01:00
emergency-restart.h
entry_arch.h x86: UV, SGI RTC: add generic system vector 2009-03-04 20:25:37 +01:00
errno.h
fb.h
fcntl.h
fixmap.h Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2 2009-03-27 17:28:43 +01:00
floppy.h
frame.h
ftrace.h tracing/function-graph-tracer: make arch generic push pop functions 2009-02-18 13:43:04 -05:00
futex.h
gart.h
genapic.h x86, apic: merge genapic.h into apic.h 2009-02-17 17:52:43 +01:00
geode.h
gpio.h
hardirq.h x86: UV, SGI RTC: add generic system vector 2009-03-04 20:25:37 +01:00
highmem.h x86: unify kmap_atomic_pfn() and iomap_atomic_prot_pfn() 2009-03-11 15:47:46 +01:00
hpet.h
hugetlb.h
hw_irq.h x86: UV, SGI RTC: add generic system vector 2009-03-04 20:25:37 +01:00
hypertransport.h
hypervisor.h
i387.h x86, math-emu: fix init_fpu for task != current 2009-03-04 20:33:16 +01:00
i8253.h
i8259.h x86: refactor x86_quirks support 2009-02-23 00:08:11 +01:00
ia32.h generic compat_sys_ustat 2009-03-27 14:43:57 -04:00
ia32_unistd.h
idle.h
init.h x86: move function and variable declarations to asm/init.h 2009-03-05 14:17:18 +01:00
intel_arch_perfmon.h
io.h x86: remove vestigial fix_ioremap prototypes 2009-03-04 02:29:32 +01:00
io_32.h Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cpudetect', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/header-fixes', 'x86/headers' and 'x86/minor-fixes' into x86/core 2009-02-13 09:46:36 +01:00
io_64.h Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cpudetect', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/header-fixes', 'x86/headers' and 'x86/minor-fixes' into x86/core 2009-02-13 09:46:36 +01:00
io_apic.h x86, ioapic: Fix non atomic allocation with interrupts disabled 2009-03-17 15:45:29 -07:00
ioctl.h
ioctls.h
iomap.h Revert "gpu/drm, x86, PAT: PAT support for io_mapping_*" 2009-03-01 12:47:49 +01:00
iommu.h x86, ia64: convert to use generic dma_map_ops struct 2009-01-06 14:06:57 +01:00
ipcbuf.h
ipi.h x86, apic: remove duplicate asm/apic.h inclusions 2009-02-17 17:52:44 +01:00
irq.h x86: UV, SGI RTC: add generic system vector 2009-03-04 20:25:37 +01:00
irq_regs.h x86: merge irq_regs.h 2009-01-21 17:26:06 +09:00
irq_remapping.h x86, x2apic: fix clear_local_APIC() in the presence of x2apic 2009-03-17 15:43:51 -07:00
irq_vectors.h x86: UV, SGI RTC: add generic system vector 2009-03-04 20:25:37 +01:00
irqflags.h
ist.h
k8.h
Kbuild byteorder: make swab.h include asm/swab.h like a regular header 2009-01-14 19:56:50 -08:00
kdebug.h
kexec.h x86, kexec: x86_64: add kexec jump support for x86_64 2009-03-10 18:13:25 -07:00
kgdb.h
kmap_types.h
kprobes.h
kvm.h KVM: Avoid using CONFIG_ in userspace visible headers 2009-03-24 11:03:06 +02:00
kvm_host.h KVM: Report IRQ injection status to userspace. 2009-03-24 11:03:11 +02:00
kvm_para.h
kvm_x86_emulate.h KVM: x86 emulator: add Src2 decode set 2008-12-31 16:55:42 +02:00
ldt.h
lguest.h x86: cleanup some remaining usages of NR_CPUS where s/b nr_cpu_ids 2009-01-03 19:00:55 +01:00
lguest_hcall.h lguest: use KVM hypercalls 2009-03-30 21:55:24 +10:30
linkage.h x86: shrink __ALIGN and __ALIGN_STR definitions 2009-03-11 12:39:28 +01:00
local.h
mach_timer.h x86: move mach-default/*.h files to asm/ 2009-01-29 14:16:51 +01:00
mach_traps.h x86: move mach-default/*.h files to asm/ 2009-01-29 14:16:51 +01:00
math_emu.h x86: fix math_emu register frame access 2009-02-10 00:39:14 +01:00
mc146818rtc.h
mca.h
mca_dma.h
mce.h x86, mce, cmci: add CMCI support 2009-02-24 13:41:00 -08:00
microcode.h
mman.h
mmconfig.h
mmu.h
mmu_context.h x86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32 2009-02-10 00:42:00 +01:00
mmx.h
mmzone.h
mmzone_32.h bootmem, x86: further fixes for arch-specific bootmem wrapping 2009-03-01 16:06:56 +09:00
mmzone_64.h mm: clean up for early_pfn_to_nid() 2009-02-18 15:37:55 -08:00
module.h
mpspec.h x86, numaq_32: clean up, misc 2009-02-17 17:53:54 +01:00
mpspec_def.h x86: rename all fields of mpf_intel mpf_X to X 2009-01-08 15:37:37 +01:00
msgbuf.h
msidef.h x86, x2apic: enable fault handling for intr-remapping 2009-03-17 15:38:59 -07:00
msr-index.h Merge branch 'linus' into x86/core 2009-03-28 22:27:45 +01:00
msr.h Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
mtrr.h headers_check fix: x86, mtrr.h 2009-01-31 00:17:39 +05:30
mutex.h
mutex_32.h
mutex_64.h
nmi.h
nops.h
numa.h
numa_32.h x86: set_highmem_pages_init() cleanup 2009-03-03 13:13:15 +01:00
numa_64.h
numaq.h x86, numaq: cleanups 2009-02-05 22:30:14 +01:00
olpc.h
page.h x86 headers: include linux/types.h 2009-02-13 13:23:02 +01:00
page_32.h x86 headers: protect page_32.h via __ASSEMBLY__ 2009-02-13 13:36:47 +01:00
page_32_types.h x86-32: compute initial mapping size more accurately 2009-03-14 17:23:47 -07:00
page_64.h x86: create _types.h counterparts for page*.h 2009-02-11 14:54:09 -08:00
page_64_types.h x86: move more pagetable-related definitions into pgtable*.h 2009-02-13 11:35:01 -08:00
page_types.h x86: clean up old gcc warnings 2009-03-05 14:50:55 +01:00
param.h
paravirt.h x86: with the last user gone, remove set_pte_present 2009-03-19 14:04:19 +01:00
parport.h
pat.h x86: clean up old gcc warnings 2009-03-05 14:50:55 +01:00
pci-direct.h
pci-functions.h x86: move mach-default/*.h files to asm/ 2009-01-29 14:16:51 +01:00
pci.h PCI/MSI: Use #ifdefs instead of weak functions 2009-03-19 19:29:26 -07:00
pci_32.h
pci_64.h
pci_x86.h x86, pci: move arch/x86/pci/pci.h to arch/x86/include/asm/pci_x86.h 2008-12-29 18:17:36 +01:00
percpu.h percpu: make x86 addr <-> pcpu ptr conversion macros generic 2009-03-10 16:27:48 +09:00
pgalloc.h x86, mm: fix pte_free() 2009-01-23 18:42:06 +01:00
pgtable-2level.h x86: with the last user gone, remove set_pte_present 2009-03-19 14:04:19 +01:00
pgtable-2level_types.h x86: move more pagetable-related definitions into pgtable*.h 2009-02-13 11:35:01 -08:00
pgtable-3level.h x86: with the last user gone, remove set_pte_present 2009-03-19 14:04:19 +01:00
pgtable-3level_types.h x86: move more pagetable-related definitions into pgtable*.h 2009-02-13 11:35:01 -08:00
pgtable.h x86: with the last user gone, remove set_pte_present 2009-03-19 14:04:19 +01:00
pgtable_32.h x86-32: use brk segment for allocating initial kernel pagetable 2009-03-14 17:23:47 -07:00
pgtable_32_types.h x86-32: use specific __vmalloc_start_set flag in __virt_addr_valid 2009-03-05 14:53:10 +01:00
pgtable_64.h Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cpudetect', 'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/header-fixes', 'x86/headers' and 'x86/minor-fixes' into x86/core 2009-02-13 09:46:36 +01:00
pgtable_64_types.h x86: move more pagetable-related definitions into pgtable*.h 2009-02-13 11:35:01 -08:00
pgtable_types.h x86: move init_memory_mapping() to common mm/init.c, build fix on 32-bit PAE 2009-03-05 14:39:03 +01:00
poll.h
posix_types.h
posix_types_32.h
posix_types_64.h
prctl.h headers_check fix: x86, prctl.h 2009-02-02 23:27:09 +05:30
processor-cyrix.h
processor-flags.h
processor.h Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/debug', 'x86/kconfig', 'x86/mm', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/setup' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc8' into x86/core 2009-03-14 16:25:40 +01:00
proto.h x86/Voyager: remove X86_BIOS_REBOOT Kconfig quirk 2009-01-29 14:17:03 +01:00
ptrace-abi.h headers_check fix: x86, ptrace-abi.h 2009-01-31 00:18:03 +05:30
ptrace.h x86: make lazy %gs optional on x86_32 2009-02-10 00:42:00 +01:00
pvclock-abi.h
pvclock.h
rdc321x_defs.h x86, rdc321x: remove/move leftover files 2009-01-18 19:39:18 +01:00
reboot.h
reboot_fixups.h
required-features.h
resource.h
resume-trace.h
rio.h
rtc.h
rwlock.h
rwsem.h
scatterlist.h
seccomp.h
seccomp_32.h x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole 2009-03-02 15:41:30 -08:00
seccomp_64.h x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole 2009-03-02 15:41:30 -08:00
sections.h x86: add brk allocation for very, very early allocations 2009-03-14 15:37:14 -07:00
segment.h x86: implement x86_32 stack protector 2009-02-10 00:42:01 +01:00
sembuf.h
serial.h
setup.h x86: headers cleanup - setup.h 2009-03-26 18:29:49 +01:00
setup_arch.h x86: move mach-default/*.h files to asm/ 2009-01-29 14:16:51 +01:00
shmbuf.h
shmparam.h
sigcontext.h headers_check fix: x86, sigcontext.h 2009-01-31 00:18:30 +05:30
sigcontext32.h headers_check fix: x86, sigcontext32.h 2009-01-31 00:18:58 +05:30
sigframe.h
siginfo.h
signal.h
smp.h x86: remove mach_apic.h 2009-01-29 14:16:42 +01:00
smpboot_hooks.h x86: move mach-default/*.h files to asm/ 2009-01-29 14:16:51 +01:00
socket.h net: new user space API for time stamping of incoming and outgoing packets 2009-02-15 22:43:33 -08:00
sockios.h
sparsemem.h
spinlock.h Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apic 2009-02-13 09:44:22 +01:00
spinlock_types.h
srat.h
stackprotector.h x86: fix x86_32 stack protector bugs 2009-02-11 11:33:49 +01:00
stacktrace.h
stat.h
statfs.h
string.h
string_32.h
string_64.h
suspend.h
suspend_32.h pm: cleanup includes 2009-04-01 08:59:16 -07:00
suspend_64.h
svm.h KVM: SVM: Move EFER and MSR constants to generic x86 code 2009-03-24 11:02:46 +02:00
swab.h headers_check fix: x86, swab.h 2009-01-31 00:19:32 +05:30
swiotlb.h swiotlb: replace architecture-specific swiotlb.h with linux/swiotlb.h 2008-12-28 10:04:00 +01:00
sync_bitops.h
sys_ia32.h generic compat_sys_ustat 2009-03-27 14:43:57 -04:00
syscall.h
syscalls.h x86: syscalls.h: remove asmlinkage from declaration of sys_rt_sigreturn() 2009-02-19 12:18:54 +01:00
system.h x86: add forward decl for tss_struct 2009-03-02 12:07:49 +01:00
system_64.h
tce.h
termbits.h
termios.h
therm_throt.h
thread_info.h Merge branch 'x86/uaccess' into core/percpu 2009-02-10 00:40:48 +01:00
time.h
timer.h x86: fix mismerge in arch/x86/include/asm/timer.h 2009-03-30 10:10:49 -07:00
timex.h x86: use standard PIT frequency 2009-01-25 16:57:47 +01:00
tlb.h
tlbflush.h x86-64: Move TLB state from PDA to per-cpu and consolidate with 32-bit. 2009-01-19 00:38:57 +09:00
topology.h cpumask: remove node_to_first_cpu 2009-03-30 22:05:12 +10:30
trampoline.h x86: load pointer to pda into %gs while brining up a CPU 2009-01-16 14:19:26 +01:00
traps.h x86: use pt_regs pointer in do_device_not_available() 2009-02-11 12:40:44 +01:00
tsc.h
types.h
uaccess.h x86: uaccess: use errret as error value in __put_user_size() 2009-02-04 17:28:21 -08:00
uaccess_32.h x86, mm: dont use non-temporal stores in pagecache accesses 2009-03-02 11:06:49 +01:00
uaccess_64.h x86, mm: dont use non-temporal stores in pagecache accesses 2009-03-02 11:06:49 +01:00
ucontext.h
unaligned.h
unistd.h
unistd_32.h preadv/pwritev: Add preadv and pwritev system calls. 2009-04-02 19:05:08 -07:00
unistd_64.h preadv/pwritev: Add preadv and pwritev system calls. 2009-04-02 19:05:08 -07:00
user.h
user32.h
user_32.h
user_64.h
vdso.h
vga.h
vgtod.h
virtext.h KVM: SVM: Move EFER and MSR constants to generic x86 code 2009-03-24 11:02:46 +02:00
vm86.h
vmi.h
vmi_time.h
vmware.h
vmx.h KVM: x86: Virtualize debug registers 2009-03-24 11:02:49 +02:00
vsyscall.h
xcr.h
xor.h
xor_32.h
xor_64.h
xsave.h