[PATCH] Add support for the sys_vmsplice syscall

sys_splice() moves data to/from pipes with a file input/output. sys_vmsplice()
moves data to a pipe, with the input being a user address range instead.

This uses an approach suggested by Linus, where we can hold partial ranges
inside the pages[] map. Hopefully this will be useful for network
receive support as well.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S
index e30798811216..bcb80ca5cf40 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -1610,5 +1610,6 @@ sys_call_table:
         data8 sys_get_robust_list
         data8 sys_sync_file_range               // 1300
         data8 sys_tee
+        data8 sys_vmsplice
 
         .org sys_call_table + 8*NR_syscalls     // guard against failures to increase NR_syscalls
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
index 8d1522690501..0b98eea73c5e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ COMPAT_SYS(ppoll)
 SYSCALL(unshare)
 SYSCALL(splice)
 SYSCALL(tee)
+SYSCALL(vmsplice)
 
 /*
  * please add new calls to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c
index deb3afb94484..b283380a2a18 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ void *spu_syscall_table[] = {
         [__NR_unshare]                  sys_unshare,
         [__NR_splice]                   sys_splice,
         [__NR_tee]                      sys_tee,
+        [__NR_vmsplice]                 sys_vmsplice,
 };
 
 long spu_sys_callback(struct spu_syscall_block *s)