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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-03 08:03:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-04 14:20:34 -0700
commit601cc11d054ae4b5e9b5babec3d8e4667a2cb9b5 (patch)
tree725ec3422b4fe50267915c1d5b80c49712ffff75
parent6bb597507f9839b13498781e481f5458aea33620 (diff)
Make non-compat preadv/pwritev use native register size
Instead of always splitting the file offset into 32-bit 'high' and 'low' parts, just split them into the largest natural word-size - which in C terms is 'unsigned long'. This allows 64-bit architectures to avoid the unnecessary 32-bit shifting and masking for native format (while the compat interfaces will obviously always have to do it). This also changes the order of 'high' and 'low' to be "low first". Why? Because when we have it like this, the 64-bit system calls now don't use the "pos_high" argument at all, and it makes more sense for the native system call to simply match the user-mode prototype. This results in a much more natural calling convention, and allows the compiler to generate much more straightforward code. On x86-64, we now generate testq %rcx, %rcx # pos_l js .L122 #, movq %rcx, -48(%rbp) # pos_l, pos from the C source loff_t pos = pos_from_hilo(pos_h, pos_l); ... if (pos < 0) return -EINVAL; and the 'pos_h' register isn't even touched. It used to generate code like mov %r8d, %r8d # pos_low, pos_low salq $32, %rcx #, tmp71 movq %r8, %rax # pos_low, pos.386 orq %rcx, %rax # tmp71, pos.386 js .L122 #, movq %rax, -48(%rbp) # pos.386, pos which isn't _that_ horrible, but it does show how the natural word size is just a more sensible interface (same arguments will hold in the user level glibc wrapper function, of course, so the kernel side is just half of the equation!) Note: in all cases the user code wrapper can again be the same. You can just do #define HALF_BITS (sizeof(unsigned long)*4) __syscall(PWRITEV, fd, iov, count, offset, (offset >> HALF_BITS) >> HALF_BITS); or something like that. That way the user mode wrapper will also be nicely passing in a zero (it won't actually have to do the shifts, the compiler will understand what is going on) for the last argument. And that is a good idea, even if nobody will necessarily ever care: if we ever do move to a 128-bit lloff_t, this particular system call might be left alone. Of course, that will be the least of our worries if we really ever need to care, so this may not be worth really caring about. [ Fixed for lost 'loff_t' cast noticed by Andrew Morton ] Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/compat.c4
-rw-r--r--fs/read_write.c14
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compat.h4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/syscalls.h4
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index 1c859dae758..3f84d5f1588 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ compat_sys_readv(unsigned long fd, const struct compat_iovec __user *vec,
asmlinkage ssize_t
compat_sys_preadv(unsigned long fd, const struct compat_iovec __user *vec,
- unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_high, u32 pos_low)
+ unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_low, u32 pos_high)
{
loff_t pos = ((loff_t)pos_high << 32) | pos_low;
struct file *file;
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ compat_sys_writev(unsigned long fd, const struct compat_iovec __user *vec,
asmlinkage ssize_t
compat_sys_pwritev(unsigned long fd, const struct compat_iovec __user *vec,
- unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_high, u32 pos_low)
+ unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_low, u32 pos_high)
{
loff_t pos = ((loff_t)pos_high << 32) | pos_low;
struct file *file;
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 6d5d8ff238a..9d1e76bb9ee 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -731,10 +731,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(writev, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
return ret;
}
+static inline loff_t pos_from_hilo(unsigned long high, unsigned long low)
+{
+#define HALF_LONG_BITS (BITS_PER_LONG / 2)
+ return (((loff_t)high << HALF_LONG_BITS) << HALF_LONG_BITS) | low;
+}
+
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(preadv, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
- unsigned long, vlen, u32, pos_high, u32, pos_low)
+ unsigned long, vlen, unsigned long, pos_l, unsigned long, pos_h)
{
- loff_t pos = ((loff_t)pos_high << 32) | pos_low;
+ loff_t pos = pos_from_hilo(pos_h, pos_l);
struct file *file;
ssize_t ret = -EBADF;
int fput_needed;
@@ -757,9 +763,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(preadv, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(pwritev, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
- unsigned long, vlen, u32, pos_high, u32, pos_low)
+ unsigned long, vlen, unsigned long, pos_l, unsigned long, pos_h)
{
- loff_t pos = ((loff_t)pos_high << 32) | pos_low;
+ loff_t pos = pos_from_hilo(pos_h, pos_l);
struct file *file;
ssize_t ret = -EBADF;
int fput_needed;
diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index 9723edd6455..f2ded21f9a3 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -193,10 +193,10 @@ asmlinkage ssize_t compat_sys_writev(unsigned long fd,
const struct compat_iovec __user *vec, unsigned long vlen);
asmlinkage ssize_t compat_sys_preadv(unsigned long fd,
const struct compat_iovec __user *vec,
- unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_high, u32 pos_low);
+ unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_low, u32 pos_high);
asmlinkage ssize_t compat_sys_pwritev(unsigned long fd,
const struct compat_iovec __user *vec,
- unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_high, u32 pos_low);
+ unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_low, u32 pos_high);
int compat_do_execve(char * filename, compat_uptr_t __user *argv,
compat_uptr_t __user *envp, struct pt_regs * regs);
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index b299a82a05e..18771cac2f8 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -462,9 +462,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_pread64(unsigned int fd, char __user *buf,
asmlinkage long sys_pwrite64(unsigned int fd, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t pos);
asmlinkage long sys_preadv(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec __user *vec,
- unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_high, u32 pos_low);
+ unsigned long vlen, unsigned long pos_l, unsigned long pos_h);
asmlinkage long sys_pwritev(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec __user *vec,
- unsigned long vlen, u32 pos_high, u32 pos_low);
+ unsigned long vlen, unsigned long pos_l, unsigned long pos_h);
asmlinkage long sys_getcwd(char __user *buf, unsigned long size);
asmlinkage long sys_mkdir(const char __user *pathname, int mode);
asmlinkage long sys_chdir(const char __user *filename);