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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-03 11:03:22 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-04 17:20:34 -0400
commit601cc11d054ae4b5e9b5babec3d8e4667a2cb9b5 (patch)
tree725ec3422b4fe50267915c1d5b80c49712ffff75 /fs/read_write.c
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/read_write.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/read_write.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 6d5d8ff238aa..9d1e76bb9ee1 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,
731 return ret; 731 return ret;
732} 732}
733 733
734static inline loff_t pos_from_hilo(unsigned long high, unsigned long low)
735{
736#define HALF_LONG_BITS (BITS_PER_LONG / 2)
737 return (((loff_t)high << HALF_LONG_BITS) << HALF_LONG_BITS) | low;
738}
739
734SYSCALL_DEFINE5(preadv, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec, 740SYSCALL_DEFINE5(preadv, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
735 unsigned long, vlen, u32, pos_high, u32, pos_low) 741 unsigned long, vlen, unsigned long, pos_l, unsigned long, pos_h)
736{ 742{
737 loff_t pos = ((loff_t)pos_high << 32) | pos_low; 743 loff_t pos = pos_from_hilo(pos_h, pos_l);
738 struct file *file; 744 struct file *file;
739 ssize_t ret = -EBADF; 745 ssize_t ret = -EBADF;
740 int fput_needed; 746 int fput_needed;
@@ -757,9 +763,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(preadv, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
757} 763}
758 764
759SYSCALL_DEFINE5(pwritev, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec, 765SYSCALL_DEFINE5(pwritev, unsigned long, fd, const struct iovec __user *, vec,
760 unsigned long, vlen, u32, pos_high, u32, pos_low) 766 unsigned long, vlen, unsigned long, pos_l, unsigned long, pos_h)
761{ 767{
762 loff_t pos = ((loff_t)pos_high << 32) | pos_low; 768 loff_t pos = pos_from_hilo(pos_h, pos_l);
763 struct file *file; 769 struct file *file;
764 ssize_t ret = -EBADF; 770 ssize_t ret = -EBADF;
765 int fput_needed; 771 int fput_needed;