[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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h b/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
index 98c36eae567c..feb77cb8c044 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
@@ -615,8 +615,10 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_splice, sys_splice)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_tee, sys_tee)
 #define __NR_sync_file_range    277
 __SYSCALL(__NR_sync_file_range, sys_sync_file_range)
+#define __NR_vmsplice           278
+__SYSCALL(__NR_vmsplice, sys_vmsplice)
 
-#define __NR_syscall_max __NR_sync_file_range
+#define __NR_syscall_max __NR_vmsplice
 
 #ifndef __NO_STUBS