[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, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index d3ebc0e68b2b..3996960fc565 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -574,6 +574,9 @@ asmlinkage long sys_splice(int fd_in, loff_t __user *off_in,
                            int fd_out, loff_t __user *off_out,
                            size_t len, unsigned int flags);
 
+asmlinkage long sys_vmsplice(int fd, const struct iovec __user *iov,
+                             unsigned long nr_segs, unsigned int flags);
+
 asmlinkage long sys_tee(int fdin, int fdout, size_t len, unsigned int flags);
 
 asmlinkage long sys_sync_file_range(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t nbytes,