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* [PATCH 0/3] VFS fileop cleanups by collapsing AIO and vector IO
@ 2006-06-21 22:03 Badari Pulavarty
  2006-06-21 22:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods Badari Pulavarty
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Badari Pulavarty @ 2006-06-21 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml; +Cc: akpm, pbadari

Hi Andrew,

Here the VFS cleanup patches to collapse vector and AIO fileop
methods + cleanups to filemap.c against 2.6.17.

These series of patches clean up and streamlines generic_file_*
interfaces in filemap.c.

BTW, I dropped adding vector-aio support (aio.c) patch for now
as it can be added later.

===
These patches collapses all the vectored IO support into 
single set of file-operation method using aio_read/aio_write.
Last patch (3) sets all thefilesystems .read/.write/.aio_read/
.aio_write methods correctly to allow us to cleanup most
generic_file_*_read/write interfaces in filemap.c

After this patch set, we should end up with ONLY following
read/write (exported) interfaces in filemap.c:

        generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
        generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
        generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

Here is the summary:

[PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods

[PATCH 2/3] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write
instead.

[PATCH 3/3] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups

Thanks,
Badari


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* [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods
  2006-06-21 22:03 [PATCH 0/3] VFS fileop cleanups by collapsing AIO and vector IO Badari Pulavarty
@ 2006-06-21 22:03 ` Badari Pulavarty
  2006-06-21 22:06 ` Badari Pulavarty
                   ` (2 subsequent siblings)
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Badari Pulavarty @ 2006-06-21 22:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml; +Cc: akpm

This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare
for collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface -
which is aio_read()/aio_write().


Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

 Documentation/filesystems/Locking |    7 ++-
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt |    4 +-
 drivers/char/raw.c                |   14 -------
 drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c        |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+-----------
 fs/aio.c                          |   15 ++++++--
 fs/block_dev.c                    |   10 -----
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c                  |    6 +--
 fs/ext3/file.c                    |    5 +-
 fs/nfs/direct.c                   |   26 +++++++++++---
 fs/nfs/file.c                     |   39 +++++++++++----------
 fs/ntfs/file.c                    |    8 +---
 fs/ocfs2/file.c                   |   28 +++++++--------
 fs/read_write.c                   |   20 ++++++++---
 fs/reiserfs/file.c                |   12 +-----
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c       |   44 +++++++++++-------------
 include/linux/aio.h               |    2 +
 include/linux/fs.h                |   10 ++---
 include/linux/nfs_fs.h            |    8 ++--
 include/net/sock.h                |    1 
 mm/filemap.c                      |   40 +++++++++++-----------
 net/socket.c                      |   48 +++++++++++++-------------
 21 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 190 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2006-06-17
18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2006-06-21
15:06:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -355,10 +355,11 @@ The last two are called only from check_
 prototypes:
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t
*);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t,
-			loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
+			unsigned long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
+			unsigned long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int,
Index: linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt	2006-06-17
18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt	2006-06-21
14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -699,9 +699,9 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulat
 struct file_operations {
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t
*);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t,
loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned
long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned
long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned
long);
Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -250,23 +250,11 @@ static ssize_t raw_file_write(struct fil
 	return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
 }
 
-static ssize_t raw_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user
*buf,
-					size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = {
-		.iov_base = (char __user *)buf,
-		.iov_len = count
-	};
-
-	return generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb-
>ki_pos);
-}
-
-
 static struct file_operations raw_fops = {
 	.read	=	generic_file_read,
 	.aio_read = 	generic_file_aio_read,
 	.write	=	raw_file_write,
-	.aio_write = 	raw_file_aio_write,
+	.aio_write = 	generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
 	.open	=	raw_open,
 	.release=	raw_release,
 	.ioctl	=	raw_ioctl,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/aio.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/aio.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/aio.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 
 #define DEBUG 0
 
@@ -1315,8 +1316,11 @@ static ssize_t aio_pread(struct kiocb *i
 	ssize_t ret = 0;
 
 	do {
-		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, iocb->ki_buf,
-			iocb->ki_left, iocb->ki_pos);
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_base = iocb->ki_buf;
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_len = iocb->ki_left;
+
+		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, &iocb->ki_inline_vec,
+						1, iocb->ki_pos);
 		/*
 		 * Can't just depend on iocb->ki_left to determine
 		 * whether we are done. This may have been a short read.
@@ -1349,8 +1353,11 @@ static ssize_t aio_pwrite(struct kiocb *
 	ssize_t ret = 0;
 
 	do {
-		ret = file->f_op->aio_write(iocb, iocb->ki_buf,
-			iocb->ki_left, iocb->ki_pos);
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_base = iocb->ki_buf;
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_len = iocb->ki_left;
+
+		ret = file->f_op->aio_write(iocb, &iocb->ki_inline_vec,
+						1, iocb->ki_pos);
 		if (ret > 0) {
 			iocb->ki_buf += ret;
 			iocb->ki_left -= ret;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/block_dev.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1064,14 +1064,6 @@ static ssize_t blkdev_file_write(struct 
 	return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
 }
 
-static ssize_t blkdev_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char
__user *buf,
-				   size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len =
count };
-
-	return generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb-
>ki_pos);
-}
-
 static long block_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long
arg)
 {
 	return blkdev_ioctl(file->f_mapping->host, file, cmd, arg);
@@ -1094,7 +1086,7 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fop
 	.read		= generic_file_read,
 	.write		= blkdev_file_write,
   	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
-  	.aio_write	= blkdev_file_aio_write, 
+  	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.fsync		= block_fsync,
 	.unlocked_ioctl	= block_ioctl,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -496,13 +496,13 @@ static ssize_t cifs_file_writev(struct f
 	return written;
 }
 
-static ssize_t cifs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char
__user *buf,
-				   size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t cifs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct
iovec *iov,
+				   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t written;
 
-	written = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	written = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 	if (!CIFS_I(inode)->clientCanCacheAll)
 		filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping);
 	return written;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ext3/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ext3/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ext3/file.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -48,14 +48,15 @@ static int ext3_release_file (struct ino
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t
count, loff_t pos)
+ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t ret;
 	int err;
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 
 	/*
 	 * Skip flushing if there was an error, or if nothing was written.
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/read_write.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -227,14 +227,20 @@ static void wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(str
 
 ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len,
loff_t *ppos)
 {
+	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = len };
 	struct kiocb kiocb;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
 	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	while (-EIOCBRETRY ==
-		(ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, buf, len, kiocb.ki_pos)))
+	kiocb.ki_left = len;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
+		if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
+			break;
 		wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	}
 
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
@@ -279,14 +285,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_read);
 
 ssize_t do_sync_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t
len, loff_t *ppos)
 {
+	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = len };
 	struct kiocb kiocb;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
 	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	while (-EIOCBRETRY ==
-	       (ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, buf, len, kiocb.ki_pos)))
+	kiocb.ki_left = len;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
+		if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
+			break;
 		wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	}
 
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/reiserfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/reiserfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/reiserfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_file_write(struc
 			if (err)
 				return err;
 		}
-		result = generic_file_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
+		result = do_sync_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
 
 		if (after_file_end) {	/* Now update i_size and remove the savelink */
 			struct reiserfs_transaction_handle th;
@@ -1560,14 +1560,8 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_file_write(struc
 	return res;
 }
 
-static ssize_t reiserfs_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user
* buf,
-				  size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	return generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
-}
-
 const struct file_operations reiserfs_file_operations = {
-	.read = generic_file_read,
+	.read = do_sync_read,
 	.write = reiserfs_file_write,
 	.ioctl = reiserfs_ioctl,
 	.mmap = generic_file_mmap,
@@ -1575,7 +1569,7 @@ const struct file_operations reiserfs_fi
 	.fsync = reiserfs_sync_file,
 	.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
 	.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
-	.aio_write = reiserfs_aio_write,
+	.aio_write = generic_file_aio_write,
 	.splice_read = generic_file_splice_read,
 	.splice_write = generic_file_splice_write,
 };
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c	2006-06-17
18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c	2006-06-21
15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -51,12 +51,11 @@ static struct vm_operations_struct xfs_d
 STATIC inline ssize_t
 __xfs_file_read(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	int			ioflags,
-	size_t			count,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	struct iovec		iov = {buf, count};
 	struct file		*file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	vnode_t			*vp = vn_from_inode(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
 	ssize_t			rval;
@@ -65,39 +64,38 @@ __xfs_file_read(
 
 	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
 		ioflags |= IO_ISDIRECT;
-	VOP_READ(vp, iocb, &iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
+	VOP_READ(vp, iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
 	return rval;
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_read(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_read_invis(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC inline ssize_t
 __xfs_file_write(
-	struct kiocb	*iocb,
-	const char	__user *buf,
-	int		ioflags,
-	size_t		count,
-	loff_t		pos)
+	struct kiocb		*iocb,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
+	int			ioflags,
+	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	struct iovec	iov = {(void __user *)buf, count};
 	struct file	*file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode	*inode = file->f_mapping->host;
 	vnode_t		*vp = vn_from_inode(inode);
@@ -107,28 +105,28 @@ __xfs_file_write(
 	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
 		ioflags |= IO_ISDIRECT;
 
-	VOP_WRITE(vp, iocb, &iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
+	VOP_WRITE(vp, iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
 	return rval;
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_write(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	const char		__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_write_invis(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	const char		__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC inline ssize_t
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1016,9 +1016,9 @@ struct file_operations {
 	struct module *owner;
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t
*);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t,
loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned
long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned
long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned
long);
@@ -1595,11 +1595,11 @@ extern int file_send_actor(read_descript
 extern ssize_t generic_file_read(struct file *, char __user *, size_t,
loff_t *);
 int generic_write_checks(struct file *file, loff_t *pos, size_t *count,
int isblk);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *, const char __user *,
size_t, loff_t *);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, char __user *,
size_t, loff_t);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec
*, unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t __generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, const struct
iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *, const char __user
*, size_t, loff_t);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *, const struct
iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *, const
struct iovec *,
-		unsigned long, loff_t *);
+		unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *, const struct
iovec *,
 		unsigned long *, loff_t, loff_t *, size_t, size_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *, const struct
iovec *,
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/net/sock.h	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/net/sock.h	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -659,7 +659,6 @@ struct sock_iocb {
 	struct sock		*sk;
 	struct scm_cookie	*scm;
 	struct msghdr		*msg, async_msg;
-	struct iovec		async_iov;
 	struct kiocb		*kiocb;
 };
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/mm/filemap.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1128,14 +1128,12 @@ out:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__generic_file_aio_read);
 
 ssize_t
-generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf, size_t
count, loff_t pos)
+generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = count };
-
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
-	return __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
+	return __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 }
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_read);
 
 ssize_t
@@ -2195,22 +2193,22 @@ out:
 	current->backing_dev_info = NULL;
 	return written ? written : err;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write_nolock);
 
-ssize_t
-generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
-				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+ssize_t generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *iocb,
+		const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	loff_t pos = *ppos;
 
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
+
+	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs,
+			&iocb->ki_pos);
 
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
-		int err;
+		ssize_t err;
 
 		err = sync_page_range_nolock(inode, mapping, pos, ret);
 		if (err < 0)
@@ -2218,6 +2216,7 @@ generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kio
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write_nolock);
 
 static ssize_t
 __generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
@@ -2227,8 +2226,9 @@ __generic_file_write_nolock(struct file 
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
 	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-	if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED)
+	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -2241,28 +2241,28 @@ generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *f
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, *ppos);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write_nolock);
 
-ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user
*buf,
-			       size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-					.iov_len = count };
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1,
-						&iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs,
+			&iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
Index: linux-2.6.17/net/socket.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/net/socket.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/net/socket.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@
 #include <linux/netfilter.h>
 
 static int sock_no_open(struct inode *irrelevant, struct file
*dontcare);
-static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf,
-			 size_t size, loff_t pos);
-static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user
*buf,
-			  size_t size, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+			 unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+			  unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
 static int sock_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct * vma);
 
 static int sock_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static ssize_t sock_sendpage(struct file
 }
 
 static struct sock_iocb *alloc_sock_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb,
-		char __user *ubuf, size_t size, struct sock_iocb *siocb)
+		struct sock_iocb *siocb)
 {
 	if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
 		siocb = kmalloc(sizeof(*siocb), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -712,15 +712,13 @@ static struct sock_iocb *alloc_sock_iocb
 	}
 
 	siocb->kiocb = iocb;
-	siocb->async_iov.iov_base = ubuf;
-	siocb->async_iov.iov_len = size;
-
 	iocb->private = siocb;
 	return siocb;
 }
 
 static ssize_t do_sock_read(struct msghdr *msg, struct kiocb *iocb,
-		struct file *file, struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
+		struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
 	struct socket *sock = file->private_data;
 	size_t size = 0;
@@ -751,31 +749,33 @@ static ssize_t sock_readv(struct file *f
         init_sync_kiocb(&iocb, NULL);
 	iocb.private = &siocb;
 
-	ret = do_sock_read(&msg, &iocb, file, (struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs);
+	ret = do_sock_read(&msg, &iocb, file, iov, nr_segs);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&iocb);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *ubuf,
-			 size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+			 unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct sock_iocb siocb, *x;
 
 	if (pos != 0)
 		return -ESPIPE;
-	if (count == 0)		/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
+
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)	/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
 		return 0;
 
-	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, ubuf, count, &siocb);
+
+	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, &siocb);
 	if (!x)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	return do_sock_read(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp,
-			&x->async_iov, 1);
+	return do_sock_read(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp, iov, nr_segs);
 }
 
 static ssize_t do_sock_write(struct msghdr *msg, struct kiocb *iocb,
-		struct file *file, struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
+		struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
 	struct socket *sock = file->private_data;
 	size_t size = 0;
@@ -808,28 +808,28 @@ static ssize_t sock_writev(struct file *
 	init_sync_kiocb(&iocb, NULL);
 	iocb.private = &siocb;
 
-	ret = do_sock_write(&msg, &iocb, file, (struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs);
+	ret = do_sock_write(&msg, &iocb, file, iov, nr_segs);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&iocb);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user
*ubuf,
-			  size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+			  unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct sock_iocb siocb, *x;
 
 	if (pos != 0)
 		return -ESPIPE;
-	if (count == 0)		/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
+
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)	/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
 		return 0;
 
-	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, (void __user *)ubuf, count, &siocb);
+	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, &siocb);
 	if (!x)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	return do_sock_write(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp,
-			&x->async_iov, 1);
+	return do_sock_write(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp, iov,
nr_segs);
 }
 
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c	2006-06-17
18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c	2006-06-21
14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -528,7 +528,8 @@ struct kiocb_priv {
 	struct usb_request	*req;
 	struct ep_data		*epdata;
 	void			*buf;
-	char __user		*ubuf;
+	const struct iovec 	*iv;
+	unsigned long 		nr_segs;
 	unsigned		actual;
 };
 
@@ -556,18 +557,33 @@ static int ep_aio_cancel(struct kiocb *i
 static ssize_t ep_aio_read_retry(struct kiocb *iocb)
 {
 	struct kiocb_priv	*priv = iocb->private;
-	ssize_t			status = priv->actual;
+	ssize_t			len, total;
+	int			i;
 
 	/* we "retry" to get the right mm context for this: */
-	status = copy_to_user(priv->ubuf, priv->buf, priv->actual);
-	if (unlikely(0 != status))
-		status = -EFAULT;
-	else
-		status = priv->actual;
+
+	/* copy stuff into user buffers */
+	total = priv->actual;
+	len = 0;
+	for (i=0; i < priv->nr_segs; i++) {
+		ssize_t this = min((ssize_t)(priv->iv[i].iov_len), total);
+
+		if (copy_to_user(priv->iv[i].iov_base, priv->buf, this)) {
+			if (len == 0)
+				len = -EFAULT;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		total -= this;
+		len += this;
+		if (total == 0)
+			break;
+	}
+
 	kfree(priv->buf);
 	kfree(priv);
 	aio_put_req(iocb);
-	return status;
+	return len;
 }
 
 static void ep_aio_complete(struct usb_ep *ep, struct usb_request *req)
@@ -615,7 +631,8 @@ ep_aio_rwtail(
 	char		*buf,
 	size_t		len,
 	struct ep_data	*epdata,
-	char __user	*ubuf
+	const struct iovec *iv,
+	unsigned long 	nr_segs
 )
 {
 	struct kiocb_priv	*priv = (void *) &iocb->private;
@@ -630,7 +647,8 @@ fail:
 		return value;
 	}
 	iocb->private = priv;
-	priv->ubuf = ubuf;
+	priv->iv = iv;
+	priv->nr_segs = nr_segs;
 
 	value = get_ready_ep(iocb->ki_filp->f_flags, epdata);
 	if (unlikely(value < 0)) {
@@ -675,36 +693,48 @@ fail:
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ep_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *ubuf, size_t len, loff_t
o)
+ep_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t o)
 {
 	struct ep_data		*epdata = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 	char			*buf;
 
 	if (unlikely(epdata->desc.bEndpointAddress & USB_DIR_IN))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	buf = kmalloc(iocb->ki_left, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!buf))
 		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	iocb->ki_retry = ep_aio_read_retry;
-	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, ubuf);
+	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, iocb->ki_left, epdata, iov, nr_segs);
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ep_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *ubuf, size_t len,
loff_t o)
+ep_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t o)
 {
 	struct ep_data		*epdata = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 	char			*buf;
+	size_t			len = 0;
+	int			i = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(!(epdata->desc.bEndpointAddress & USB_DIR_IN)))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	buf = kmalloc(iocb->ki_left, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!buf))
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	if (unlikely(copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, len) != 0)) {
-		kfree(buf);
-		return -EFAULT;
+
+	for (i=0; i < nr_segs; i++) {
+		if (unlikely(copy_from_user(&buf[len], iov[i].iov_base,
+				iov[i].iov_len) != 0)) {
+			kfree(buf);
+			return -EFAULT;
+		}
+		len += iov[i].iov_len;
 	}
-	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, NULL);
+	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, NULL, 0);
 }
 
 /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/aio.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/aio.h	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/aio.h	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ struct kiocb {
 	long			ki_retried; 	/* just for testing */
 	long			ki_kicked; 	/* just for testing */
 	long			ki_queued; 	/* just for testing */
+	struct iovec		ki_inline_vec;	/* inline vector */
 
 	struct list_head	ki_list;	/* the aio core uses this
 						 * for cancellation */
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/direct.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/nfs/direct.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/direct.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -745,8 +745,8 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write(struct k
 /**
  * nfs_file_direct_read - file direct read operation for NFS files
  * @iocb: target I/O control block
- * @buf: user's buffer into which to read data
- * @count: number of bytes to read
+ * @iov: vector of user buffers into which to read data
+ * @nr_segs: size of iov vector
  * @pos: byte offset in file where reading starts
  *
  * We use this function for direct reads instead of calling
@@ -763,19 +763,26 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write(struct k
  * client must read the updated atime from the server back into its
  * cache.
  */
-ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	ssize_t retval = -EINVAL;
 	int page_count;
 	struct page **pages;
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
+	/* XXX: temporary */
+	const char __user *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
+	size_t count = iov[0].iov_len;
 
 	dprintk("nfs: direct read(%s/%s, %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		file->f_dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
 		file->f_dentry->d_name.name,
 		(unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
+	if (nr_segs != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (count < 0)
 		goto out;
 	retval = -EFAULT;
@@ -807,8 +814,8 @@ out:
 /**
  * nfs_file_direct_write - file direct write operation for NFS files
  * @iocb: target I/O control block
- * @buf: user's buffer from which to write data
- * @count: number of bytes to write
+ * @iov: vector of user buffers from which to write data
+ * @nr_segs: size of iov vector
  * @pos: byte offset in file where writing starts
  *
  * We use this function for direct writes instead of calling
@@ -829,19 +836,26 @@ out:
  * Note that O_APPEND is not supported for NFS direct writes, as there
  * is no atomic O_APPEND write facility in the NFS protocol.
  */
-ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user
*buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	ssize_t retval;
 	int page_count;
 	struct page **pages;
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
+	/* XXX: temporary */
+	const char __user *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
+	size_t count = iov[0].iov_len;
 
 	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: direct write(%s/%s, %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		file->f_dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
 		file->f_dentry->d_name.name,
 		(unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
+	if (nr_segs != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	retval = generic_write_checks(file, &pos, &count, 0);
 	if (retval)
 		goto out;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/nfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ static int nfs_file_release(struct inode
 static loff_t nfs_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int
origin);
 static int  nfs_file_mmap(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 static ssize_t nfs_file_sendfile(struct file *, loff_t *, size_t,
read_actor_t, void *);
-static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t,
loff_t);
-static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *, const char __user *,
size_t, loff_t);
+static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
 static int  nfs_file_flush(struct file *);
 static int  nfs_fsync(struct file *, struct dentry *dentry, int
datasync);
 static int nfs_check_flags(int flags);
@@ -53,8 +55,8 @@ const struct file_operations nfs_file_op
 	.llseek		= nfs_file_llseek,
 	.read		= do_sync_read,
 	.write		= do_sync_write,
-	.aio_read		= nfs_file_read,
-	.aio_write		= nfs_file_write,
+	.aio_read	= nfs_file_read,
+	.aio_write	= nfs_file_write,
 	.mmap		= nfs_file_mmap,
 	.open		= nfs_file_open,
 	.flush		= nfs_file_flush,
@@ -212,26 +214,27 @@ nfs_file_flush(struct file *file)
 	return status;
 }
 
-static ssize_t
-nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user * buf, size_t count,
loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct dentry * dentry = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry;
 	struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t result;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO
 	if (iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
-		return nfs_file_direct_read(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		return nfs_file_direct_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 #endif
 
-	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: read(%s/%s, %lu@%lu)\n",
+	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: read(%s/%s, %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		dentry->d_parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name,
-		(unsigned long) count, (unsigned long) pos);
+		(unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
 	result = nfs_revalidate_file(inode, iocb->ki_filp);
 	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_NORMALREADBYTES, count);
 	if (!result)
-		result = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		result = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 	return result;
 }
 
@@ -343,24 +346,22 @@ struct address_space_operations nfs_file
 #endif
 };
 
-/* 
- * Write to a file (through the page cache).
- */
-static ssize_t
-nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t
count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec
*iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct dentry * dentry = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry;
 	struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t result;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO
 	if (iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
-		return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 #endif
 
-	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: write(%s/%s(%ld), %lu@%lu)\n",
+	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: write(%s/%s(%ld), %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		dentry->d_parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name,
-		inode->i_ino, (unsigned long) count, (unsigned long) pos);
+		inode->i_ino, (unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
 	result = -EBUSY;
 	if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
@@ -380,7 +381,7 @@ nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const
 		goto out;
 
 	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_NORMALWRITTENBYTES, count);
-	result = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	result = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 out:
 	return result;
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/nfs_fs.h	2006-06-17
18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/nfs_fs.h	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000
-0700
@@ -359,10 +359,10 @@ extern int nfs3_removexattr (struct dent
  */
 extern ssize_t nfs_direct_IO(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
loff_t,
 			unsigned long);
-extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user
*buf,
-			size_t count, loff_t pos);
-extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char
__user *buf,
-			size_t count, loff_t pos);
+extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct
iovec *iov,
+			unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
+extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct
iovec *iov,
+			unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
 
 /*
  * linux/fs/nfs/dir.c
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ocfs2/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ocfs2/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000
-0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ocfs2/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -960,25 +960,23 @@ static inline int ocfs2_write_should_rem
 }
 
 static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
-				    const char __user *buf,
-				    size_t count,
+				    const struct iovec *iov,
+				    unsigned long nr_segs,
 				    loff_t pos)
 {
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-				   .iov_len = count };
 	int ret, rw_level = -1, meta_level = -1, have_alloc_sem = 0;
 	u32 clusters;
 	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	loff_t newsize, saved_pos;
 
-	mlog_entry("(0x%p, 0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp, buf,
-		   (unsigned int)count,
+	mlog_entry("(0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp,
+		   (unsigned int)nr_segs,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.len,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.name);
 
 	/* happy write of zero bytes */
-	if (count == 0)
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!inode) {
@@ -1047,7 +1045,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 		} else {
 			saved_pos = iocb->ki_pos;
 		}
-		newsize = count + saved_pos;
+		newsize = iocb->ki_left + saved_pos;
 
 		mlog(0, "pos=%lld newsize=%lld cursize=%lld\n",
 		     (long long) saved_pos, (long long) newsize,
@@ -1080,7 +1078,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 		if (!clusters)
 			break;
 
-		ret = ocfs2_extend_file(inode, NULL, newsize, count);
+		ret = ocfs2_extend_file(inode, NULL, newsize, iocb->ki_left);
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			if (ret != -ENOSPC)
 				mlog_errno(ret);
@@ -1097,7 +1095,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 	/* communicate with ocfs2_dio_end_io */
 	ocfs2_iocb_set_rw_locked(iocb);
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb-
>ki_pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, iocb->ki_pos);
 
 	/* buffered aio wouldn't have proper lock coverage today */
 	BUG_ON(ret == -EIOCBQUEUED && !(filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT));
@@ -1131,16 +1129,16 @@ out:
 }
 
 static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
-				   char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count,
+				   const struct iovec *iov,
+				   unsigned long nr_segs,
 				   loff_t pos)
 {
 	int ret = 0, rw_level = -1, have_alloc_sem = 0;
 	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 
-	mlog_entry("(0x%p, 0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp, buf,
-		   (unsigned int)count,
+	mlog_entry("(0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp,
+		   (unsigned int)nr_segs,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.len,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.name);
 
@@ -1184,7 +1182,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_read(struc
 	}
 	ocfs2_meta_unlock(inode, 0);
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, buf, count, iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, iocb->ki_pos);
 	if (ret == -EINVAL)
 		mlog(ML_ERROR, "generic_file_aio_read returned -EINVAL\n");
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -2174,20 +2174,18 @@ out:
 /**
  * ntfs_file_aio_write -
  */
-static ssize_t ntfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char
__user *buf,
-		size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t ntfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct
iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-				   .iov_len = count };
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = ntfs_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = ntfs_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
 		int err = sync_page_range(inode, mapping, pos, ret);



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods
  2006-06-21 22:03 [PATCH 0/3] VFS fileop cleanups by collapsing AIO and vector IO Badari Pulavarty
  2006-06-21 22:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods Badari Pulavarty
@ 2006-06-21 22:06 ` Badari Pulavarty
  2006-06-21 22:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead Badari Pulavarty
  2006-06-21 22:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups Badari Pulavarty
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Badari Pulavarty @ 2006-06-21 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml; +Cc: akpm

Previous patch is word wrapped. Resending ..

Thanks,
Badari

This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare
for collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface -
which is aio_read()/aio_write().


Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

 Documentation/filesystems/Locking |    7 ++-
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt |    4 +-
 drivers/char/raw.c                |   14 -------
 drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c        |   68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 fs/aio.c                          |   15 ++++++--
 fs/block_dev.c                    |   10 -----
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c                  |    6 +--
 fs/ext3/file.c                    |    5 +-
 fs/nfs/direct.c                   |   26 +++++++++++---
 fs/nfs/file.c                     |   39 +++++++++++----------
 fs/ntfs/file.c                    |    8 +---
 fs/ocfs2/file.c                   |   28 +++++++--------
 fs/read_write.c                   |   20 ++++++++---
 fs/reiserfs/file.c                |   12 +-----
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c       |   44 +++++++++++-------------
 include/linux/aio.h               |    2 +
 include/linux/fs.h                |   10 ++---
 include/linux/nfs_fs.h            |    8 ++--
 include/net/sock.h                |    1 
 mm/filemap.c                      |   40 +++++++++++-----------
 net/socket.c                      |   48 +++++++++++++-------------
 21 files changed, 225 insertions(+), 190 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2006-06-21 15:06:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -355,10 +355,11 @@ The last two are called only from check_
 prototypes:
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t,
-			loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
+			unsigned long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
+			unsigned long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int,
Index: linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -699,9 +699,9 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulat
 struct file_operations {
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -250,23 +250,11 @@ static ssize_t raw_file_write(struct fil
 	return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
 }
 
-static ssize_t raw_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-					size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = {
-		.iov_base = (char __user *)buf,
-		.iov_len = count
-	};
-
-	return generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
-}
-
-
 static struct file_operations raw_fops = {
 	.read	=	generic_file_read,
 	.aio_read = 	generic_file_aio_read,
 	.write	=	raw_file_write,
-	.aio_write = 	raw_file_aio_write,
+	.aio_write = 	generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
 	.open	=	raw_open,
 	.release=	raw_release,
 	.ioctl	=	raw_ioctl,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/aio.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/aio.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/aio.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 
 #define DEBUG 0
 
@@ -1315,8 +1316,11 @@ static ssize_t aio_pread(struct kiocb *i
 	ssize_t ret = 0;
 
 	do {
-		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, iocb->ki_buf,
-			iocb->ki_left, iocb->ki_pos);
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_base = iocb->ki_buf;
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_len = iocb->ki_left;
+
+		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, &iocb->ki_inline_vec,
+						1, iocb->ki_pos);
 		/*
 		 * Can't just depend on iocb->ki_left to determine
 		 * whether we are done. This may have been a short read.
@@ -1349,8 +1353,11 @@ static ssize_t aio_pwrite(struct kiocb *
 	ssize_t ret = 0;
 
 	do {
-		ret = file->f_op->aio_write(iocb, iocb->ki_buf,
-			iocb->ki_left, iocb->ki_pos);
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_base = iocb->ki_buf;
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_len = iocb->ki_left;
+
+		ret = file->f_op->aio_write(iocb, &iocb->ki_inline_vec,
+						1, iocb->ki_pos);
 		if (ret > 0) {
 			iocb->ki_buf += ret;
 			iocb->ki_left -= ret;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/block_dev.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1064,14 +1064,6 @@ static ssize_t blkdev_file_write(struct 
 	return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
 }
 
-static ssize_t blkdev_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = count };
-
-	return generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
-}
-
 static long block_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	return blkdev_ioctl(file->f_mapping->host, file, cmd, arg);
@@ -1094,7 +1086,7 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fop
 	.read		= generic_file_read,
 	.write		= blkdev_file_write,
   	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
-  	.aio_write	= blkdev_file_aio_write, 
+  	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.fsync		= block_fsync,
 	.unlocked_ioctl	= block_ioctl,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -496,13 +496,13 @@ static ssize_t cifs_file_writev(struct f
 	return written;
 }
 
-static ssize_t cifs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t cifs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t written;
 
-	written = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	written = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 	if (!CIFS_I(inode)->clientCanCacheAll)
 		filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping);
 	return written;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ext3/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ext3/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ext3/file.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -48,14 +48,15 @@ static int ext3_release_file (struct ino
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t ret;
 	int err;
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 
 	/*
 	 * Skip flushing if there was an error, or if nothing was written.
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/read_write.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -227,14 +227,20 @@ static void wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(str
 
 ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
 {
+	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = len };
 	struct kiocb kiocb;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
 	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	while (-EIOCBRETRY ==
-		(ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, buf, len, kiocb.ki_pos)))
+	kiocb.ki_left = len;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
+		if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
+			break;
 		wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	}
 
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
@@ -279,14 +285,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_read);
 
 ssize_t do_sync_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
 {
+	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = len };
 	struct kiocb kiocb;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
 	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	while (-EIOCBRETRY ==
-	       (ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, buf, len, kiocb.ki_pos)))
+	kiocb.ki_left = len;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
+		if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
+			break;
 		wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	}
 
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/reiserfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/reiserfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/reiserfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -1329,7 +1329,7 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_file_write(struc
 			if (err)
 				return err;
 		}
-		result = generic_file_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
+		result = do_sync_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
 
 		if (after_file_end) {	/* Now update i_size and remove the savelink */
 			struct reiserfs_transaction_handle th;
@@ -1560,14 +1560,8 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_file_write(struc
 	return res;
 }
 
-static ssize_t reiserfs_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user * buf,
-				  size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	return generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
-}
-
 const struct file_operations reiserfs_file_operations = {
-	.read = generic_file_read,
+	.read = do_sync_read,
 	.write = reiserfs_file_write,
 	.ioctl = reiserfs_ioctl,
 	.mmap = generic_file_mmap,
@@ -1575,7 +1569,7 @@ const struct file_operations reiserfs_fi
 	.fsync = reiserfs_sync_file,
 	.sendfile = generic_file_sendfile,
 	.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
-	.aio_write = reiserfs_aio_write,
+	.aio_write = generic_file_aio_write,
 	.splice_read = generic_file_splice_read,
 	.splice_write = generic_file_splice_write,
 };
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -51,12 +51,11 @@ static struct vm_operations_struct xfs_d
 STATIC inline ssize_t
 __xfs_file_read(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	int			ioflags,
-	size_t			count,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	struct iovec		iov = {buf, count};
 	struct file		*file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	vnode_t			*vp = vn_from_inode(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
 	ssize_t			rval;
@@ -65,39 +64,38 @@ __xfs_file_read(
 
 	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
 		ioflags |= IO_ISDIRECT;
-	VOP_READ(vp, iocb, &iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
+	VOP_READ(vp, iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
 	return rval;
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_read(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_read_invis(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC inline ssize_t
 __xfs_file_write(
-	struct kiocb	*iocb,
-	const char	__user *buf,
-	int		ioflags,
-	size_t		count,
-	loff_t		pos)
+	struct kiocb		*iocb,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
+	int			ioflags,
+	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	struct iovec	iov = {(void __user *)buf, count};
 	struct file	*file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode	*inode = file->f_mapping->host;
 	vnode_t		*vp = vn_from_inode(inode);
@@ -107,28 +105,28 @@ __xfs_file_write(
 	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
 		ioflags |= IO_ISDIRECT;
 
-	VOP_WRITE(vp, iocb, &iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
+	VOP_WRITE(vp, iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
 	return rval;
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_write(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	const char		__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_write_invis(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	const char		__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC inline ssize_t
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1016,9 +1016,9 @@ struct file_operations {
 	struct module *owner;
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
@@ -1595,11 +1595,11 @@ extern int file_send_actor(read_descript
 extern ssize_t generic_file_read(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
 int generic_write_checks(struct file *file, loff_t *pos, size_t *count, int isblk);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t __generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
-		unsigned long, loff_t *);
+		unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
 		unsigned long *, loff_t, loff_t *, size_t, size_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/net/sock.h	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/net/sock.h	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -659,7 +659,6 @@ struct sock_iocb {
 	struct sock		*sk;
 	struct scm_cookie	*scm;
 	struct msghdr		*msg, async_msg;
-	struct iovec		async_iov;
 	struct kiocb		*kiocb;
 };
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/mm/filemap.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -1128,14 +1128,12 @@ out:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__generic_file_aio_read);
 
 ssize_t
-generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = count };
-
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
-	return __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
+	return __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 }
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_read);
 
 ssize_t
@@ -2195,22 +2193,22 @@ out:
 	current->backing_dev_info = NULL;
 	return written ? written : err;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write_nolock);
 
-ssize_t
-generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
-				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+ssize_t generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *iocb,
+		const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	loff_t pos = *ppos;
 
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
+
+	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs,
+			&iocb->ki_pos);
 
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
-		int err;
+		ssize_t err;
 
 		err = sync_page_range_nolock(inode, mapping, pos, ret);
 		if (err < 0)
@@ -2218,6 +2216,7 @@ generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kio
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write_nolock);
 
 static ssize_t
 __generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
@@ -2227,8 +2226,9 @@ __generic_file_write_nolock(struct file 
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
 	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-	if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED)
+	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -2241,28 +2241,28 @@ generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *f
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, *ppos);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write_nolock);
 
-ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-			       size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-					.iov_len = count };
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1,
-						&iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs,
+			&iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
Index: linux-2.6.17/net/socket.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/net/socket.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/net/socket.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -96,10 +96,10 @@
 #include <linux/netfilter.h>
 
 static int sock_no_open(struct inode *irrelevant, struct file *dontcare);
-static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf,
-			 size_t size, loff_t pos);
-static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-			  size_t size, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			 unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			  unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
 static int sock_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct * vma);
 
 static int sock_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static ssize_t sock_sendpage(struct file
 }
 
 static struct sock_iocb *alloc_sock_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb,
-		char __user *ubuf, size_t size, struct sock_iocb *siocb)
+		struct sock_iocb *siocb)
 {
 	if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
 		siocb = kmalloc(sizeof(*siocb), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -712,15 +712,13 @@ static struct sock_iocb *alloc_sock_iocb
 	}
 
 	siocb->kiocb = iocb;
-	siocb->async_iov.iov_base = ubuf;
-	siocb->async_iov.iov_len = size;
-
 	iocb->private = siocb;
 	return siocb;
 }
 
 static ssize_t do_sock_read(struct msghdr *msg, struct kiocb *iocb,
-		struct file *file, struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
+		struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
 	struct socket *sock = file->private_data;
 	size_t size = 0;
@@ -751,31 +749,33 @@ static ssize_t sock_readv(struct file *f
         init_sync_kiocb(&iocb, NULL);
 	iocb.private = &siocb;
 
-	ret = do_sock_read(&msg, &iocb, file, (struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs);
+	ret = do_sock_read(&msg, &iocb, file, iov, nr_segs);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&iocb);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *ubuf,
-			 size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			 unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct sock_iocb siocb, *x;
 
 	if (pos != 0)
 		return -ESPIPE;
-	if (count == 0)		/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
+
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)	/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
 		return 0;
 
-	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, ubuf, count, &siocb);
+
+	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, &siocb);
 	if (!x)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	return do_sock_read(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp,
-			&x->async_iov, 1);
+	return do_sock_read(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp, iov, nr_segs);
 }
 
 static ssize_t do_sock_write(struct msghdr *msg, struct kiocb *iocb,
-		struct file *file, struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
+		struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
 	struct socket *sock = file->private_data;
 	size_t size = 0;
@@ -808,28 +808,28 @@ static ssize_t sock_writev(struct file *
 	init_sync_kiocb(&iocb, NULL);
 	iocb.private = &siocb;
 
-	ret = do_sock_write(&msg, &iocb, file, (struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs);
+	ret = do_sock_write(&msg, &iocb, file, iov, nr_segs);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&iocb);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *ubuf,
-			  size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			  unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct sock_iocb siocb, *x;
 
 	if (pos != 0)
 		return -ESPIPE;
-	if (count == 0)		/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
+
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)	/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
 		return 0;
 
-	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, (void __user *)ubuf, count, &siocb);
+	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, &siocb);
 	if (!x)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	return do_sock_write(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp,
-			&x->async_iov, 1);
+	return do_sock_write(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp, iov, nr_segs);
 }
 
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -528,7 +528,8 @@ struct kiocb_priv {
 	struct usb_request	*req;
 	struct ep_data		*epdata;
 	void			*buf;
-	char __user		*ubuf;
+	const struct iovec 	*iv;
+	unsigned long 		nr_segs;
 	unsigned		actual;
 };
 
@@ -556,18 +557,33 @@ static int ep_aio_cancel(struct kiocb *i
 static ssize_t ep_aio_read_retry(struct kiocb *iocb)
 {
 	struct kiocb_priv	*priv = iocb->private;
-	ssize_t			status = priv->actual;
+	ssize_t			len, total;
+	int			i;
 
 	/* we "retry" to get the right mm context for this: */
-	status = copy_to_user(priv->ubuf, priv->buf, priv->actual);
-	if (unlikely(0 != status))
-		status = -EFAULT;
-	else
-		status = priv->actual;
+
+	/* copy stuff into user buffers */
+	total = priv->actual;
+	len = 0;
+	for (i=0; i < priv->nr_segs; i++) {
+		ssize_t this = min((ssize_t)(priv->iv[i].iov_len), total);
+
+		if (copy_to_user(priv->iv[i].iov_base, priv->buf, this)) {
+			if (len == 0)
+				len = -EFAULT;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		total -= this;
+		len += this;
+		if (total == 0)
+			break;
+	}
+
 	kfree(priv->buf);
 	kfree(priv);
 	aio_put_req(iocb);
-	return status;
+	return len;
 }
 
 static void ep_aio_complete(struct usb_ep *ep, struct usb_request *req)
@@ -615,7 +631,8 @@ ep_aio_rwtail(
 	char		*buf,
 	size_t		len,
 	struct ep_data	*epdata,
-	char __user	*ubuf
+	const struct iovec *iv,
+	unsigned long 	nr_segs
 )
 {
 	struct kiocb_priv	*priv = (void *) &iocb->private;
@@ -630,7 +647,8 @@ fail:
 		return value;
 	}
 	iocb->private = priv;
-	priv->ubuf = ubuf;
+	priv->iv = iv;
+	priv->nr_segs = nr_segs;
 
 	value = get_ready_ep(iocb->ki_filp->f_flags, epdata);
 	if (unlikely(value < 0)) {
@@ -675,36 +693,48 @@ fail:
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ep_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *ubuf, size_t len, loff_t o)
+ep_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t o)
 {
 	struct ep_data		*epdata = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 	char			*buf;
 
 	if (unlikely(epdata->desc.bEndpointAddress & USB_DIR_IN))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	buf = kmalloc(iocb->ki_left, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!buf))
 		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	iocb->ki_retry = ep_aio_read_retry;
-	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, ubuf);
+	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, iocb->ki_left, epdata, iov, nr_segs);
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ep_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *ubuf, size_t len, loff_t o)
+ep_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t o)
 {
 	struct ep_data		*epdata = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 	char			*buf;
+	size_t			len = 0;
+	int			i = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(!(epdata->desc.bEndpointAddress & USB_DIR_IN)))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	buf = kmalloc(iocb->ki_left, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!buf))
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	if (unlikely(copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, len) != 0)) {
-		kfree(buf);
-		return -EFAULT;
+
+	for (i=0; i < nr_segs; i++) {
+		if (unlikely(copy_from_user(&buf[len], iov[i].iov_base,
+				iov[i].iov_len) != 0)) {
+			kfree(buf);
+			return -EFAULT;
+		}
+		len += iov[i].iov_len;
 	}
-	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, NULL);
+	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, NULL, 0);
 }
 
 /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/aio.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/aio.h	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/aio.h	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ struct kiocb {
 	long			ki_retried; 	/* just for testing */
 	long			ki_kicked; 	/* just for testing */
 	long			ki_queued; 	/* just for testing */
+	struct iovec		ki_inline_vec;	/* inline vector */
 
 	struct list_head	ki_list;	/* the aio core uses this
 						 * for cancellation */
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/direct.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/nfs/direct.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/direct.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -745,8 +745,8 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write(struct k
 /**
  * nfs_file_direct_read - file direct read operation for NFS files
  * @iocb: target I/O control block
- * @buf: user's buffer into which to read data
- * @count: number of bytes to read
+ * @iov: vector of user buffers into which to read data
+ * @nr_segs: size of iov vector
  * @pos: byte offset in file where reading starts
  *
  * We use this function for direct reads instead of calling
@@ -763,19 +763,26 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write(struct k
  * client must read the updated atime from the server back into its
  * cache.
  */
-ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	ssize_t retval = -EINVAL;
 	int page_count;
 	struct page **pages;
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
+	/* XXX: temporary */
+	const char __user *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
+	size_t count = iov[0].iov_len;
 
 	dprintk("nfs: direct read(%s/%s, %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		file->f_dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
 		file->f_dentry->d_name.name,
 		(unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
+	if (nr_segs != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (count < 0)
 		goto out;
 	retval = -EFAULT;
@@ -807,8 +814,8 @@ out:
 /**
  * nfs_file_direct_write - file direct write operation for NFS files
  * @iocb: target I/O control block
- * @buf: user's buffer from which to write data
- * @count: number of bytes to write
+ * @iov: vector of user buffers from which to write data
+ * @nr_segs: size of iov vector
  * @pos: byte offset in file where writing starts
  *
  * We use this function for direct writes instead of calling
@@ -829,19 +836,26 @@ out:
  * Note that O_APPEND is not supported for NFS direct writes, as there
  * is no atomic O_APPEND write facility in the NFS protocol.
  */
-ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	ssize_t retval;
 	int page_count;
 	struct page **pages;
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
+	/* XXX: temporary */
+	const char __user *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
+	size_t count = iov[0].iov_len;
 
 	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: direct write(%s/%s, %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		file->f_dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
 		file->f_dentry->d_name.name,
 		(unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
+	if (nr_segs != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	retval = generic_write_checks(file, &pos, &count, 0);
 	if (retval)
 		goto out;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/nfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ static int nfs_file_release(struct inode
 static loff_t nfs_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 static int  nfs_file_mmap(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 static ssize_t nfs_file_sendfile(struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, read_actor_t, void *);
-static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
-static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
 static int  nfs_file_flush(struct file *);
 static int  nfs_fsync(struct file *, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync);
 static int nfs_check_flags(int flags);
@@ -53,8 +55,8 @@ const struct file_operations nfs_file_op
 	.llseek		= nfs_file_llseek,
 	.read		= do_sync_read,
 	.write		= do_sync_write,
-	.aio_read		= nfs_file_read,
-	.aio_write		= nfs_file_write,
+	.aio_read	= nfs_file_read,
+	.aio_write	= nfs_file_write,
 	.mmap		= nfs_file_mmap,
 	.open		= nfs_file_open,
 	.flush		= nfs_file_flush,
@@ -212,26 +214,27 @@ nfs_file_flush(struct file *file)
 	return status;
 }
 
-static ssize_t
-nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user * buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct dentry * dentry = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry;
 	struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t result;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO
 	if (iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
-		return nfs_file_direct_read(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		return nfs_file_direct_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 #endif
 
-	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: read(%s/%s, %lu@%lu)\n",
+	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: read(%s/%s, %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		dentry->d_parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name,
-		(unsigned long) count, (unsigned long) pos);
+		(unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
 	result = nfs_revalidate_file(inode, iocb->ki_filp);
 	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_NORMALREADBYTES, count);
 	if (!result)
-		result = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		result = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 	return result;
 }
 
@@ -343,24 +346,22 @@ struct address_space_operations nfs_file
 #endif
 };
 
-/* 
- * Write to a file (through the page cache).
- */
-static ssize_t
-nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct dentry * dentry = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry;
 	struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t result;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO
 	if (iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
-		return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 #endif
 
-	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: write(%s/%s(%ld), %lu@%lu)\n",
+	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: write(%s/%s(%ld), %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		dentry->d_parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name,
-		inode->i_ino, (unsigned long) count, (unsigned long) pos);
+		inode->i_ino, (unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
 	result = -EBUSY;
 	if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
@@ -380,7 +381,7 @@ nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const
 		goto out;
 
 	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_NORMALWRITTENBYTES, count);
-	result = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	result = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 out:
 	return result;
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/nfs_fs.h	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/nfs_fs.h	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -359,10 +359,10 @@ extern int nfs3_removexattr (struct dent
  */
 extern ssize_t nfs_direct_IO(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, loff_t,
 			unsigned long);
-extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf,
-			size_t count, loff_t pos);
-extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-			size_t count, loff_t pos);
+extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
+extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
 
 /*
  * linux/fs/nfs/dir.c
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ocfs2/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ocfs2/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ocfs2/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
@@ -960,25 +960,23 @@ static inline int ocfs2_write_should_rem
 }
 
 static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
-				    const char __user *buf,
-				    size_t count,
+				    const struct iovec *iov,
+				    unsigned long nr_segs,
 				    loff_t pos)
 {
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-				   .iov_len = count };
 	int ret, rw_level = -1, meta_level = -1, have_alloc_sem = 0;
 	u32 clusters;
 	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	loff_t newsize, saved_pos;
 
-	mlog_entry("(0x%p, 0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp, buf,
-		   (unsigned int)count,
+	mlog_entry("(0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp,
+		   (unsigned int)nr_segs,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.len,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.name);
 
 	/* happy write of zero bytes */
-	if (count == 0)
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!inode) {
@@ -1047,7 +1045,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 		} else {
 			saved_pos = iocb->ki_pos;
 		}
-		newsize = count + saved_pos;
+		newsize = iocb->ki_left + saved_pos;
 
 		mlog(0, "pos=%lld newsize=%lld cursize=%lld\n",
 		     (long long) saved_pos, (long long) newsize,
@@ -1080,7 +1078,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 		if (!clusters)
 			break;
 
-		ret = ocfs2_extend_file(inode, NULL, newsize, count);
+		ret = ocfs2_extend_file(inode, NULL, newsize, iocb->ki_left);
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			if (ret != -ENOSPC)
 				mlog_errno(ret);
@@ -1097,7 +1095,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 	/* communicate with ocfs2_dio_end_io */
 	ocfs2_iocb_set_rw_locked(iocb);
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, iocb->ki_pos);
 
 	/* buffered aio wouldn't have proper lock coverage today */
 	BUG_ON(ret == -EIOCBQUEUED && !(filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT));
@@ -1131,16 +1129,16 @@ out:
 }
 
 static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
-				   char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count,
+				   const struct iovec *iov,
+				   unsigned long nr_segs,
 				   loff_t pos)
 {
 	int ret = 0, rw_level = -1, have_alloc_sem = 0;
 	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 
-	mlog_entry("(0x%p, 0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp, buf,
-		   (unsigned int)count,
+	mlog_entry("(0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp,
+		   (unsigned int)nr_segs,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.len,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.name);
 
@@ -1184,7 +1182,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_read(struc
 	}
 	ocfs2_meta_unlock(inode, 0);
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, buf, count, iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, iocb->ki_pos);
 	if (ret == -EINVAL)
 		mlog(ML_ERROR, "generic_file_aio_read returned -EINVAL\n");
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-06-21 15:03:57.000000000 -0700
@@ -2174,20 +2174,18 @@ out:
 /**
  * ntfs_file_aio_write -
  */
-static ssize_t ntfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-		size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t ntfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-				   .iov_len = count };
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = ntfs_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = ntfs_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
 		int err = sync_page_range(inode, mapping, pos, ret);



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* [PATCH 2/3] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead
  2006-06-21 22:03 [PATCH 0/3] VFS fileop cleanups by collapsing AIO and vector IO Badari Pulavarty
  2006-06-21 22:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods Badari Pulavarty
  2006-06-21 22:06 ` Badari Pulavarty
@ 2006-06-21 22:06 ` Badari Pulavarty
  2006-06-21 22:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups Badari Pulavarty
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Badari Pulavarty @ 2006-06-21 22:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml; +Cc: akpm

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces
them with aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>

 drivers/char/raw.c          |    2 
 drivers/net/tun.c           |   37 ++++------------
 fs/bad_inode.c              |    2 
 fs/block_dev.c              |    2 
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c            |   16 ------
 fs/compat.c                 |   44 ++++---------------
 fs/ext2/file.c              |    2 
 fs/ext3/file.c              |    2 
 fs/fat/file.c               |    2 
 fs/fuse/dev.c               |   37 ++++------------
 fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c     |    2 
 fs/jfs/file.c               |    2 
 fs/ntfs/file.c              |    2 
 fs/pipe.c                   |   59 +++++++++----------------
 fs/read_write.c             |  101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 fs/read_write.h             |   14 ++++++
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c |   92 ----------------------------------------
 include/linux/fs.h          |    6 --
 mm/filemap.c                |   36 ---------------
 net/socket.c                |   40 -----------------
 sound/core/pcm_native.c     |   40 ++++++++---------
 21 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 386 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -258,8 +258,6 @@ static struct file_operations raw_fops =
 	.open	=	raw_open,
 	.release=	raw_release,
 	.ioctl	=	raw_ioctl,
-	.readv	= 	generic_file_readv,
-	.writev	= 	generic_file_writev,
 	.owner	=	THIS_MODULE,
 };
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/net/tun.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/net/tun.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/net/tun.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -289,11 +289,10 @@ static inline size_t iov_total(const str
 	return len;
 }
 
-/* Writev */
-static ssize_t tun_chr_writev(struct file * file, const struct iovec *iv, 
-			      unsigned long count, loff_t *pos)
+static ssize_t tun_chr_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,
+			      unsigned long count, loff_t pos)
 {
-	struct tun_struct *tun = file->private_data;
+	struct tun_struct *tun = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 
 	if (!tun)
 		return -EBADFD;
@@ -303,14 +302,6 @@ static ssize_t tun_chr_writev(struct fil
 	return tun_get_user(tun, (struct iovec *) iv, iov_total(iv, count));
 }
 
-/* Write */
-static ssize_t tun_chr_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf, 
-			     size_t count, loff_t *pos)
-{
-	struct iovec iv = { (void __user *) buf, count };
-	return tun_chr_writev(file, &iv, 1, pos);
-}
-
 /* Put packet to the user space buffer */
 static __inline__ ssize_t tun_put_user(struct tun_struct *tun,
 				       struct sk_buff *skb,
@@ -344,10 +335,10 @@ static __inline__ ssize_t tun_put_user(s
 	return total;
 }
 
-/* Readv */
-static ssize_t tun_chr_readv(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iv,
-			    unsigned long count, loff_t *pos)
+static ssize_t tun_chr_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,
+			    unsigned long count, loff_t pos)
 {
+	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct tun_struct *tun = file->private_data;
 	DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
@@ -427,14 +418,6 @@ static ssize_t tun_chr_readv(struct file
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/* Read */
-static ssize_t tun_chr_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf, 
-			    size_t count, loff_t *pos)
-{
-	struct iovec iv = { buf, count };
-	return tun_chr_readv(file, &iv, 1, pos);
-}
-
 static void tun_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct tun_struct *tun = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -762,10 +745,10 @@ static int tun_chr_close(struct inode *i
 static struct file_operations tun_fops = {
 	.owner	= THIS_MODULE,	
 	.llseek = no_llseek,
-	.read	= tun_chr_read,
-	.readv	= tun_chr_readv,
-	.write	= tun_chr_write,
-	.writev = tun_chr_writev,
+	.read  = do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read  = tun_chr_aio_read,
+	.write = do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write = tun_chr_aio_write,
 	.poll	= tun_chr_poll,
 	.ioctl	= tun_chr_ioctl,
 	.open	= tun_chr_open,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/bad_inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/bad_inode.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/bad_inode.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -40,8 +40,6 @@ static const struct file_operations bad_
 	.aio_fsync	= EIO_ERROR,
 	.fasync		= EIO_ERROR,
 	.lock		= EIO_ERROR,
-	.readv		= EIO_ERROR,
-	.writev		= EIO_ERROR,
 	.sendfile	= EIO_ERROR,
 	.sendpage	= EIO_ERROR,
 	.get_unmapped_area = EIO_ERROR,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/block_dev.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -1093,8 +1093,6 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fop
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 	.compat_ioctl	= compat_blkdev_ioctl,
 #endif
-	.readv		= generic_file_readv,
-	.writev		= generic_file_write_nolock,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 	.splice_read	= generic_file_splice_read,
 	.splice_write	= generic_file_splice_write,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -484,18 +484,6 @@ cifs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_
 	return sb;
 }
 
-static ssize_t cifs_file_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
-	ssize_t written;
-
-	written = generic_file_writev(file, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-	if (!CIFS_I(inode)->clientCanCacheAll)
-		filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping);
-	return written;
-}
-
 static ssize_t cifs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 				   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
@@ -581,8 +569,6 @@ struct inode_operations cifs_symlink_ino
 const struct file_operations cifs_file_ops = {
 	.read = do_sync_read,
 	.write = do_sync_write,
-	.readv = generic_file_readv,
-	.writev = cifs_file_writev,
 	.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write = cifs_file_aio_write,
 	.open = cifs_open,
@@ -624,8 +610,6 @@ const struct file_operations cifs_file_d
 const struct file_operations cifs_file_nobrl_ops = {
 	.read = do_sync_read,
 	.write = do_sync_write,
-	.readv = generic_file_readv,
-	.writev = cifs_file_writev,
 	.aio_read = generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write = cifs_file_aio_write,
 	.open = cifs_open,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/compat.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/compat.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/compat.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
 
 extern void sigset_from_compat(sigset_t *set, compat_sigset_t *compat);
 
+#include "read_write.h"
+
 /*
  * Not all architectures have sys_utime, so implement this in terms
  * of sys_utimes.
@@ -1139,9 +1141,6 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(in
 			       const struct compat_iovec __user *uvector,
 			       unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *pos)
 {
-	typedef ssize_t (*io_fn_t)(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	typedef ssize_t (*iov_fn_t)(struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
-
 	compat_ssize_t tot_len;
 	struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV];
 	struct iovec *iov=iovstack, *vector;
@@ -1224,39 +1223,18 @@ static ssize_t compat_do_readv_writev(in
 	fnv = NULL;
 	if (type == READ) {
 		fn = file->f_op->read;
-		fnv = file->f_op->readv;
+		fnv = file->f_op->aio_read;
 	} else {
 		fn = (io_fn_t)file->f_op->write;
-		fnv = file->f_op->writev;
-	}
-	if (fnv) {
-		ret = fnv(file, iov, nr_segs, pos);
-		goto out;
+		fnv = file->f_op->aio_write;
 	}
 
-	/* Do it by hand, with file-ops */
-	ret = 0;
-	vector = iov;
-	while (nr_segs > 0) {
-		void __user * base;
-		size_t len;
-		ssize_t nr;
-
-		base = vector->iov_base;
-		len = vector->iov_len;
-		vector++;
-		nr_segs--;
-
-		nr = fn(file, base, len, pos);
+	if (fnv)
+		ret = do_sync_readv_writev(file, iov, nr_segs, tot_len,
+						pos, fnv);
+	else
+		ret = do_loop_readv_writev(file, iov, nr_segs, pos, fn);
 
-		if (nr < 0) {
-			if (!ret) ret = nr;
-			break;
-		}
-		ret += nr;
-		if (nr != len)
-			break;
-	}
 out:
 	if (iov != iovstack)
 		kfree(iov);
@@ -1284,7 +1262,7 @@ compat_sys_readv(unsigned long fd, const
 		goto out;
 
 	ret = -EINVAL;
-	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->readv && !file->f_op->read))
+	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->aio_read && !file->f_op->read))
 		goto out;
 
 	ret = compat_do_readv_writev(READ, file, vec, vlen, &file->f_pos);
@@ -1307,7 +1285,7 @@ compat_sys_writev(unsigned long fd, cons
 		goto out;
 
 	ret = -EINVAL;
-	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->writev && !file->f_op->write))
+	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->aio_write && !file->f_op->write))
 		goto out;
 
 	ret = compat_do_readv_writev(WRITE, file, vec, vlen, &file->f_pos);
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ext2/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ext2/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ext2/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ const struct file_operations ext2_file_o
 	.open		= generic_file_open,
 	.release	= ext2_release_file,
 	.fsync		= ext2_sync_file,
-	.readv		= generic_file_readv,
-	.writev		= generic_file_writev,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 	.splice_read	= generic_file_splice_read,
 	.splice_write	= generic_file_splice_write,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ext3/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ext3/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ext3/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -112,8 +112,6 @@ const struct file_operations ext3_file_o
 	.write		= do_sync_write,
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= ext3_file_write,
-	.readv		= generic_file_readv,
-	.writev		= generic_file_writev,
 	.ioctl		= ext3_ioctl,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.open		= generic_file_open,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/fat/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/fat/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/fat/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -116,8 +116,6 @@ const struct file_operations fat_file_op
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
 	.read		= do_sync_read,
 	.write		= do_sync_write,
-	.readv		= generic_file_readv,
-	.writev		= generic_file_writev,
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/fuse/dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/fuse/dev.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/fuse/dev.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -585,14 +585,15 @@ static void request_wait(struct fuse_con
  * request_end().  Otherwise add it to the processing list, and set
  * the 'sent' flag.
  */
-static ssize_t fuse_dev_readv(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-			      unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *off)
+static ssize_t fuse_dev_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			      unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	int err;
 	struct fuse_req *req;
 	struct fuse_in *in;
 	struct fuse_copy_state cs;
 	unsigned reqsize;
+	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct fuse_conn *fc = fuse_get_conn(file);
 	if (!fc)
 		return -EPERM;
@@ -658,15 +659,6 @@ static ssize_t fuse_dev_readv(struct fil
 	return err;
 }
 
-static ssize_t fuse_dev_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
-			     size_t nbytes, loff_t *off)
-{
-	struct iovec iov;
-	iov.iov_len = nbytes;
-	iov.iov_base = buf;
-	return fuse_dev_readv(file, &iov, 1, off);
-}
-
 /* Look up request on processing list by unique ID */
 static struct fuse_req *request_find(struct fuse_conn *fc, u64 unique)
 {
@@ -711,15 +703,15 @@ static int copy_out_args(struct fuse_cop
  * it from the list and copy the rest of the buffer to the request.
  * The request is finished by calling request_end()
  */
-static ssize_t fuse_dev_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-			       unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *off)
+static ssize_t fuse_dev_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			       unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	int err;
 	unsigned nbytes = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 	struct fuse_req *req;
 	struct fuse_out_header oh;
 	struct fuse_copy_state cs;
-	struct fuse_conn *fc = fuse_get_conn(file);
+	struct fuse_conn *fc = fuse_get_conn(iocb->ki_filp);
 	if (!fc)
 		return -EPERM;
 
@@ -779,15 +771,6 @@ static ssize_t fuse_dev_writev(struct fi
 	return err;
 }
 
-static ssize_t fuse_dev_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
-			      size_t nbytes, loff_t *off)
-{
-	struct iovec iov;
-	iov.iov_len = nbytes;
-	iov.iov_base = (char __user *) buf;
-	return fuse_dev_writev(file, &iov, 1, off);
-}
-
 static unsigned fuse_dev_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
 {
 	unsigned mask = POLLOUT | POLLWRNORM;
@@ -921,10 +904,10 @@ static int fuse_dev_fasync(int fd, struc
 const struct file_operations fuse_dev_operations = {
 	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
-	.read		= fuse_dev_read,
-	.readv		= fuse_dev_readv,
-	.write		= fuse_dev_write,
-	.writev		= fuse_dev_writev,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= fuse_dev_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= fuse_dev_write,
 	.poll		= fuse_dev_poll,
 	.release	= fuse_dev_release,
 	.fasync		= fuse_dev_fasync,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -390,8 +390,6 @@ static const struct file_operations host
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
-	.readv		= generic_file_readv,
-	.writev		= generic_file_writev,
 	.write		= generic_file_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.open		= hostfs_file_open,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/jfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/jfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/jfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -108,8 +108,6 @@ const struct file_operations jfs_file_op
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
-	.readv		= generic_file_readv,
-	.writev		= generic_file_writev,
  	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 	.fsync		= jfs_fsync,
 	.release	= jfs_release,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -2296,11 +2296,9 @@ const struct file_operations ntfs_file_o
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,	 /* Seek inside file. */
 	.read		= generic_file_read,	 /* Read from file. */
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read, /* Async read from file. */
-	.readv		= generic_file_readv,	 /* Read from file. */
 #ifdef NTFS_RW
 	.write		= ntfs_file_write,	 /* Write to file. */
 	.aio_write	= ntfs_file_aio_write,	 /* Async write to file. */
-	.writev		= ntfs_file_writev,	 /* Write to file. */
 	/*.release	= ,*/			 /* Last file is closed.  See
 						    fs/ext2/file.c::
 						    ext2_release_file() for
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/pipe.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/pipe.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/pipe.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -218,9 +218,10 @@ static struct pipe_buf_operations anon_p
 };
 
 static ssize_t
-pipe_readv(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *_iov,
-	   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+pipe_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *_iov,
+	   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
+	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
 	int do_wakeup;
@@ -330,17 +331,10 @@ redo:
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-pipe_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = count };
-
-	return pipe_readv(filp, &iov, 1, ppos);
-}
-
-static ssize_t
-pipe_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *_iov,
-	    unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+pipe_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *_iov,
+	    unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t ppos)
 {
+	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
 	ssize_t ret;
@@ -510,15 +504,6 @@ out:
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-pipe_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
-	   size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = count };
-
-	return pipe_writev(filp, &iov, 1, ppos);
-}
-
-static ssize_t
 bad_pipe_r(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
 	return -EBADF;
@@ -736,8 +721,8 @@ pipe_rdwr_open(struct inode *inode, stru
  */
 const struct file_operations read_fifo_fops = {
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
-	.read		= pipe_read,
-	.readv		= pipe_readv,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= pipe_read,
 	.write		= bad_pipe_w,
 	.poll		= pipe_poll,
 	.ioctl		= pipe_ioctl,
@@ -749,8 +734,8 @@ const struct file_operations read_fifo_f
 const struct file_operations write_fifo_fops = {
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
 	.read		= bad_pipe_r,
-	.write		= pipe_write,
-	.writev		= pipe_writev,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= pipe_write,
 	.poll		= pipe_poll,
 	.ioctl		= pipe_ioctl,
 	.open		= pipe_write_open,
@@ -760,10 +745,10 @@ const struct file_operations write_fifo_
 
 const struct file_operations rdwr_fifo_fops = {
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
-	.read		= pipe_read,
-	.readv		= pipe_readv,
-	.write		= pipe_write,
-	.writev		= pipe_writev,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= pipe_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= pipe_write,
 	.poll		= pipe_poll,
 	.ioctl		= pipe_ioctl,
 	.open		= pipe_rdwr_open,
@@ -773,8 +758,8 @@ const struct file_operations rdwr_fifo_f
 
 static struct file_operations read_pipe_fops = {
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
-	.read		= pipe_read,
-	.readv		= pipe_readv,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= pipe_read,
 	.write		= bad_pipe_w,
 	.poll		= pipe_poll,
 	.ioctl		= pipe_ioctl,
@@ -786,8 +771,8 @@ static struct file_operations read_pipe_
 static struct file_operations write_pipe_fops = {
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
 	.read		= bad_pipe_r,
-	.write		= pipe_write,
-	.writev		= pipe_writev,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= pipe_write,
 	.poll		= pipe_poll,
 	.ioctl		= pipe_ioctl,
 	.open		= pipe_write_open,
@@ -797,10 +782,10 @@ static struct file_operations write_pipe
 
 static struct file_operations rdwr_pipe_fops = {
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
-	.read		= pipe_read,
-	.readv		= pipe_readv,
-	.write		= pipe_write,
-	.writev		= pipe_writev,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= pipe_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= pipe_write,
 	.poll		= pipe_poll,
 	.ioctl		= pipe_ioctl,
 	.open		= pipe_rdwr_open,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/read_write.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include "read_write.h"
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/unistd.h>
@@ -450,6 +451,62 @@ unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_shorten);
 
+ssize_t do_sync_readv_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, size_t len, loff_t *ppos, iov_fn_t fn)
+{
+	struct kiocb kiocb;
+	ssize_t ret;
+
+	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
+	kiocb.ki_left = len;
+	kiocb.ki_nbytes = len;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = fn(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, kiocb.ki_pos);
+		if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
+			break;
+		wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	}
+
+	if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED)
+		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/* Do it by hand, with file-ops */
+ssize_t do_loop_readv_writev(struct file *filp, struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos, io_fn_t fn)
+{
+	struct iovec *vector = iov;
+	ssize_t ret = 0;
+
+	while (nr_segs > 0) {
+		void __user *base;
+		size_t len;
+		ssize_t nr;
+
+		base = vector->iov_base;
+		len = vector->iov_len;
+		vector++;
+		nr_segs--;
+
+		nr = fn(filp, base, len, ppos);
+
+		if (nr < 0) {
+			if (!ret)
+				ret = nr;
+			break;
+		}
+		ret += nr;
+		if (nr != len)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /* A write operation does a read from user space and vice versa */
 #define vrfy_dir(type) ((type) == READ ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ)
 
@@ -457,12 +514,9 @@ static ssize_t do_readv_writev(int type,
 			       const struct iovec __user * uvector,
 			       unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *pos)
 {
-	typedef ssize_t (*io_fn_t)(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	typedef ssize_t (*iov_fn_t)(struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
-
 	size_t tot_len;
 	struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV];
-	struct iovec *iov=iovstack, *vector;
+	struct iovec *iov = iovstack;
 	ssize_t ret;
 	int seg;
 	io_fn_t fn;
@@ -532,39 +586,18 @@ static ssize_t do_readv_writev(int type,
 	fnv = NULL;
 	if (type == READ) {
 		fn = file->f_op->read;
-		fnv = file->f_op->readv;
+		fnv = file->f_op->aio_read;
 	} else {
 		fn = (io_fn_t)file->f_op->write;
-		fnv = file->f_op->writev;
-	}
-	if (fnv) {
-		ret = fnv(file, iov, nr_segs, pos);
-		goto out;
+		fnv = file->f_op->aio_write;
 	}
 
-	/* Do it by hand, with file-ops */
-	ret = 0;
-	vector = iov;
-	while (nr_segs > 0) {
-		void __user * base;
-		size_t len;
-		ssize_t nr;
-
-		base = vector->iov_base;
-		len = vector->iov_len;
-		vector++;
-		nr_segs--;
-
-		nr = fn(file, base, len, pos);
+	if (fnv)
+		ret = do_sync_readv_writev(file, iov, nr_segs, tot_len,
+						pos, fnv);
+	else
+		ret = do_loop_readv_writev(file, iov, nr_segs, pos, fn);
 
-		if (nr < 0) {
-			if (!ret) ret = nr;
-			break;
-		}
-		ret += nr;
-		if (nr != len)
-			break;
-	}
 out:
 	if (iov != iovstack)
 		kfree(iov);
@@ -585,7 +618,7 @@ ssize_t vfs_readv(struct file *file, con
 {
 	if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ))
 		return -EBADF;
-	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->readv && !file->f_op->read))
+	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->aio_read && !file->f_op->read))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return do_readv_writev(READ, file, vec, vlen, pos);
@@ -598,7 +631,7 @@ ssize_t vfs_writev(struct file *file, co
 {
 	if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
 		return -EBADF;
-	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->writev && !file->f_op->write))
+	if (!file->f_op || (!file->f_op->aio_write && !file->f_op->write))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	return do_readv_writev(WRITE, file, vec, vlen, pos);
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.h
===================================================================
--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.h	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/*
+ * This file is only for sharing some helpers from read_write.c with compat.c.
+ * Don't use anywhere else.
+ */
+
+
+typedef ssize_t (*io_fn_t)(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
+typedef ssize_t (*iov_fn_t)(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
+		unsigned long, loff_t);
+
+ssize_t do_sync_readv_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, size_t len, loff_t *ppos, iov_fn_t fn);
+ssize_t do_loop_readv_writev(struct file *filp, struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos, io_fn_t fn);
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -129,94 +129,6 @@ xfs_file_aio_write_invis(
 	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, pos);
 }
 
-STATIC inline ssize_t
-__xfs_file_readv(
-	struct file		*file,
-	const struct iovec 	*iov,
-	int			ioflags,
-	unsigned long		nr_segs,
-	loff_t			*ppos)
-{
-	struct inode	*inode = file->f_mapping->host;
-	vnode_t		*vp = vn_from_inode(inode);
-	struct kiocb	kiocb;
-	ssize_t		rval;
-
-	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
-	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-
-	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
-		ioflags |= IO_ISDIRECT;
-	VOP_READ(vp, &kiocb, iov, nr_segs, &kiocb.ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
-
-	*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
-	return rval;
-}
-
-STATIC ssize_t
-xfs_file_readv(
-	struct file		*file,
-	const struct iovec 	*iov,
-	unsigned long		nr_segs,
-	loff_t			*ppos)
-{
-	return __xfs_file_readv(file, iov, 0, nr_segs, ppos);
-}
-
-STATIC ssize_t
-xfs_file_readv_invis(
-	struct file		*file,
-	const struct iovec 	*iov,
-	unsigned long		nr_segs,
-	loff_t			*ppos)
-{
-	return __xfs_file_readv(file, iov, IO_INVIS, nr_segs, ppos);
-}
-
-STATIC inline ssize_t
-__xfs_file_writev(
-	struct file		*file,
-	const struct iovec 	*iov,
-	int			ioflags,
-	unsigned long		nr_segs,
-	loff_t			*ppos)
-{
-	struct inode	*inode = file->f_mapping->host;
-	vnode_t		*vp = vn_from_inode(inode);
-	struct kiocb	kiocb;
-	ssize_t		rval;
-
-	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
-	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
-		ioflags |= IO_ISDIRECT;
-
-	VOP_WRITE(vp, &kiocb, iov, nr_segs, &kiocb.ki_pos, ioflags, NULL, rval);
-
-	*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
-	return rval;
-}
-
-STATIC ssize_t
-xfs_file_writev(
-	struct file		*file,
-	const struct iovec 	*iov,
-	unsigned long		nr_segs,
-	loff_t			*ppos)
-{
-	return __xfs_file_writev(file, iov, 0, nr_segs, ppos);
-}
-
-STATIC ssize_t
-xfs_file_writev_invis(
-	struct file		*file,
-	const struct iovec 	*iov,
-	unsigned long		nr_segs,
-	loff_t			*ppos)
-{
-	return __xfs_file_writev(file, iov, IO_INVIS, nr_segs, ppos);
-}
-
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_sendfile(
 	struct file		*filp,
@@ -577,8 +489,6 @@ const struct file_operations xfs_file_op
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
 	.read		= do_sync_read,
 	.write		= do_sync_write,
-	.readv		= xfs_file_readv,
-	.writev		= xfs_file_writev,
 	.aio_read	= xfs_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= xfs_file_aio_write,
 	.sendfile	= xfs_file_sendfile,
@@ -601,8 +511,6 @@ const struct file_operations xfs_invis_f
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
 	.read		= do_sync_read,
 	.write		= do_sync_write,
-	.readv		= xfs_file_readv_invis,
-	.writev		= xfs_file_writev_invis,
 	.aio_read	= xfs_file_aio_read_invis,
 	.aio_write	= xfs_file_aio_write_invis,
 	.sendfile	= xfs_file_sendfile_invis,
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -1032,8 +1032,6 @@ struct file_operations {
 	int (*aio_fsync) (struct kiocb *, int datasync);
 	int (*fasync) (int, struct file *, int);
 	int (*lock) (struct file *, int, struct file_lock *);
-	ssize_t (*readv) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*writev) (struct file *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
 	ssize_t (*sendfile) (struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, read_actor_t, void *);
 	ssize_t (*sendpage) (struct file *, struct page *, int, size_t, loff_t *, int);
 	unsigned long (*get_unmapped_area)(struct file *, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long, unsigned long);
@@ -1625,10 +1623,6 @@ extern long do_splice_direct(struct file
 
 extern void
 file_ra_state_init(struct file_ra_state *ra, struct address_space *mapping);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_readv(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov, 
-	unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos);
-ssize_t generic_file_writev(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov, 
-			unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos);
 extern loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 extern loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 extern loff_t remote_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
Index: linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/mm/filemap.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -2300,42 +2300,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write);
 
-ssize_t generic_file_readv(struct file *filp, const struct iovec *iov,
-			unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct kiocb kiocb;
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_read(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
-		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
-	return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_readv);
-
-ssize_t generic_file_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-			unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
-	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = __generic_file_write_nolock(file, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
-	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
-		int err;
-
-		err = sync_page_range(inode, mapping, *ppos - ret, ret);
-		if (err < 0)
-			ret = err;
-	}
-	return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_writev);
-
 /*
  * Called under i_mutex for writes to S_ISREG files.   Returns -EIO if something
  * went wrong during pagecache shootdown.
Index: linux-2.6.17/net/socket.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/net/socket.c	2006-06-21 14:39:05.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/net/socket.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -112,10 +112,6 @@ static long compat_sock_ioctl(struct fil
 		      unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
 #endif
 static int sock_fasync(int fd, struct file *filp, int on);
-static ssize_t sock_readv(struct file *file, const struct iovec *vector,
-			  unsigned long count, loff_t *ppos);
-static ssize_t sock_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *vector,
-			  unsigned long count, loff_t *ppos);
 static ssize_t sock_sendpage(struct file *file, struct page *page,
 			     int offset, size_t size, loff_t *ppos, int more);
 
@@ -138,8 +134,6 @@ static struct file_operations socket_fil
 	.open =		sock_no_open,	/* special open code to disallow open via /proc */
 	.release =	sock_close,
 	.fasync =	sock_fasync,
-	.readv =	sock_readv,
-	.writev =	sock_writev,
 	.sendpage =	sock_sendpage,
 	.splice_write = generic_splice_sendpage,
 };
@@ -738,23 +732,6 @@ static ssize_t do_sock_read(struct msghd
 	return __sock_recvmsg(iocb, sock, msg, size, msg->msg_flags);
 }
 
-static ssize_t sock_readv(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-			  unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct kiocb iocb;
-	struct sock_iocb siocb;
-	struct msghdr msg;
-	int ret;
-
-        init_sync_kiocb(&iocb, NULL);
-	iocb.private = &siocb;
-
-	ret = do_sock_read(&msg, &iocb, file, iov, nr_segs);
-	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
-		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&iocb);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 			 unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
@@ -797,23 +774,6 @@ static ssize_t do_sock_write(struct msgh
 	return __sock_sendmsg(iocb, sock, msg, size);
 }
 
-static ssize_t sock_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-			   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct msghdr msg;
-	struct kiocb iocb;
-	struct sock_iocb siocb;
-	int ret;
-
-	init_sync_kiocb(&iocb, NULL);
-	iocb.private = &siocb;
-
-	ret = do_sock_write(&msg, &iocb, file, iov, nr_segs);
-	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
-		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&iocb);
-	return ret;
-}
-
 static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 			  unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
Index: linux-2.6.17/sound/core/pcm_native.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/sound/core/pcm_native.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/sound/core/pcm_native.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -2819,8 +2819,8 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_write(struct file
 	return result;
 }
 
-static ssize_t snd_pcm_readv(struct file *file, const struct iovec *_vector,
-			     unsigned long count, loff_t * offset)
+static ssize_t snd_pcm_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			     unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 
 {
 	struct snd_pcm_file *pcm_file;
@@ -2831,22 +2831,22 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_readv(struct file
 	void __user **bufs;
 	snd_pcm_uframes_t frames;
 
-	pcm_file = file->private_data;
+	pcm_file = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 	substream = pcm_file->substream;
 	snd_assert(substream != NULL, return -ENXIO);
 	runtime = substream->runtime;
 	if (runtime->status->state == SNDRV_PCM_STATE_OPEN)
 		return -EBADFD;
-	if (count > 1024 || count != runtime->channels)
+	if (nr_segs > 1024 || nr_segs != runtime->channels)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if (!frame_aligned(runtime, _vector->iov_len))
+	if (!frame_aligned(runtime, iov->iov_len))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	frames = bytes_to_samples(runtime, _vector->iov_len);
-	bufs = kmalloc(sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
+	frames = bytes_to_samples(runtime, iov->iov_len);
+	bufs = kmalloc(sizeof(void *) * nr_segs, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (bufs == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	for (i = 0; i < count; ++i)
-		bufs[i] = _vector[i].iov_base;
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_segs; ++i)
+		bufs[i] = iov[i].iov_base;
 	result = snd_pcm_lib_readv(substream, bufs, frames);
 	if (result > 0)
 		result = frames_to_bytes(runtime, result);
@@ -2854,8 +2854,8 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_readv(struct file
 	return result;
 }
 
-static ssize_t snd_pcm_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *_vector,
-			      unsigned long count, loff_t * offset)
+static ssize_t snd_pcm_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			      unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct snd_pcm_file *pcm_file;
 	struct snd_pcm_substream *substream;
@@ -2865,7 +2865,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_writev(struct fil
 	void __user **bufs;
 	snd_pcm_uframes_t frames;
 
-	pcm_file = file->private_data;
+	pcm_file = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 	substream = pcm_file->substream;
 	snd_assert(substream != NULL, result = -ENXIO; goto end);
 	runtime = substream->runtime;
@@ -2873,17 +2873,17 @@ static ssize_t snd_pcm_writev(struct fil
 		result = -EBADFD;
 		goto end;
 	}
-	if (count > 128 || count != runtime->channels ||
-	    !frame_aligned(runtime, _vector->iov_len)) {
+	if (nr_segs > 128 || nr_segs != runtime->channels ||
+	    !frame_aligned(runtime, iov->iov_len)) {
 		result = -EINVAL;
 		goto end;
 	}
-	frames = bytes_to_samples(runtime, _vector->iov_len);
-	bufs = kmalloc(sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);
+	frames = bytes_to_samples(runtime, iov->iov_len);
+	bufs = kmalloc(sizeof(void *) * nr_segs, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (bufs == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	for (i = 0; i < count; ++i)
-		bufs[i] = _vector[i].iov_base;
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_segs; ++i)
+		bufs[i] = iov[i].iov_base;
 	result = snd_pcm_lib_writev(substream, bufs, frames);
 	if (result > 0)
 		result = frames_to_bytes(runtime, result);
@@ -3389,7 +3389,7 @@ struct file_operations snd_pcm_f_ops[2] 
 	{
 		.owner =		THIS_MODULE,
 		.write =		snd_pcm_write,
-		.writev =		snd_pcm_writev,
+		.aio_write =		snd_pcm_aio_write,
 		.open =			snd_pcm_playback_open,
 		.release =		snd_pcm_release,
 		.poll =			snd_pcm_playback_poll,
@@ -3401,7 +3401,7 @@ struct file_operations snd_pcm_f_ops[2] 
 	{
 		.owner =		THIS_MODULE,
 		.read =			snd_pcm_read,
-		.readv =		snd_pcm_readv,
+		.aio_read =		snd_pcm_aio_read,
 		.open =			snd_pcm_capture_open,
 		.release =		snd_pcm_release,
 		.poll =			snd_pcm_capture_poll,



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* [PATCH 3/3] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups
  2006-06-21 22:03 [PATCH 0/3] VFS fileop cleanups by collapsing AIO and vector IO Badari Pulavarty
                   ` (2 preceding siblings ...)
  2006-06-21 22:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead Badari Pulavarty
@ 2006-06-21 22:07 ` Badari Pulavarty
  3 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Badari Pulavarty @ 2006-06-21 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml; +Cc: akpm

This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.
Christoph Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write
methods and use do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write 
methods. This allows us to cleanup all variants of generic_file_*
routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine 

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

 drivers/char/raw.c         |   15 +------
 fs/adfs/file.c             |    6 ++-
 fs/affs/file.c             |    6 ++-
 fs/bfs/file.c              |    6 ++-
 fs/block_dev.c             |   12 +-----
 fs/ext2/file.c             |    4 +-
 fs/fuse/file.c             |    6 ++-
 fs/hfs/inode.c             |    6 ++-
 fs/hfsplus/inode.c         |    6 ++-
 fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c    |    4 +-
 fs/hpfs/file.c             |    6 ++-
 fs/jffs/inode-v23.c        |    6 ++-
 fs/jffs2/file.c            |    6 ++-
 fs/jfs/file.c              |    4 +-
 fs/minix/file.c            |    6 ++-
 fs/ntfs/file.c             |    2 -
 fs/qnx4/file.c             |    6 ++-
 fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c        |    6 ++-
 fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c      |    6 ++-
 fs/read_write.c            |    3 +
 fs/smbfs/file.c            |   24 +++++++-----
 fs/sysv/file.c             |    6 ++-
 fs/udf/file.c              |   16 +++++---
 fs/ufs/file.c              |    6 ++-
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c |    4 +-
 include/linux/fs.h         |    5 --
 mm/filemap.c               |   88 ++-------------------------------------------
 27 files changed, 105 insertions(+), 166 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -239,21 +239,10 @@ out:
 	return err;
 }
 
-static ssize_t raw_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = {
-		.iov_base = (char __user *)buf,
-		.iov_len = count
-	};
-
-	return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
-}
-
 static struct file_operations raw_fops = {
-	.read	=	generic_file_read,
+	.read	=	do_sync_read,
 	.aio_read = 	generic_file_aio_read,
-	.write	=	raw_file_write,
+	.write	=	do_sync_write,
 	.aio_write = 	generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
 	.open	=	raw_open,
 	.release=	raw_release,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/adfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/adfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/adfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -27,10 +27,12 @@
 
 const struct file_operations adfs_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.fsync		= file_fsync,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 };
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/affs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/affs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/affs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -27,8 +27,10 @@ static int affs_file_release(struct inod
 
 const struct file_operations affs_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.open		= affs_file_open,
 	.release	= affs_file_release,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/bfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/bfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/bfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@
 
 const struct file_operations bfs_file_operations = {
 	.llseek 	= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 };
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/block_dev.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -1056,14 +1056,6 @@ static int blkdev_close(struct inode * i
 	return blkdev_put(bdev);
 }
 
-static ssize_t blkdev_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = count };
-
-	return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
-}
-
 static long block_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	return blkdev_ioctl(file->f_mapping->host, file, cmd, arg);
@@ -1083,8 +1075,8 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fop
 	.open		= blkdev_open,
 	.release	= blkdev_close,
 	.llseek		= block_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= blkdev_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
   	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
   	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ext2/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ext2/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ext2/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ static int ext2_release_file (struct ino
  */
 const struct file_operations ext2_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.ioctl		= ext2_ioctl,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/fuse/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/fuse/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/fuse/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -621,8 +621,10 @@ static int fuse_set_page_dirty(struct pa
 
 static const struct file_operations fuse_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= fuse_file_mmap,
 	.open		= fuse_open,
 	.flush		= fuse_flush,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/hfs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/hfs/inode.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/hfs/inode.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -603,8 +603,10 @@ int hfs_inode_setattr(struct dentry *den
 
 static const struct file_operations hfs_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 	.fsync		= file_fsync,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/hfsplus/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/hfsplus/inode.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/hfsplus/inode.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -282,8 +282,10 @@ static struct inode_operations hfsplus_f
 
 static const struct file_operations hfsplus_file_operations = {
 	.llseek 	= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 	.fsync		= file_fsync,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -386,11 +386,11 @@ int hostfs_fsync(struct file *file, stru
 
 static const struct file_operations hostfs_file_fops = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.open		= hostfs_file_open,
 	.release	= NULL,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/hpfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/hpfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/hpfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static ssize_t hpfs_file_write(struct fi
 {
 	ssize_t retval;
 
-	retval = generic_file_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
+	retval = do_sync_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
 	if (retval > 0)
 		hpfs_i(file->f_dentry->d_inode)->i_dirty = 1;
 	return retval;
@@ -122,8 +122,10 @@ static ssize_t hpfs_file_write(struct fi
 const struct file_operations hpfs_file_ops =
 {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.write		= hpfs_file_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.release	= hpfs_file_release,
 	.fsync		= hpfs_file_fsync,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -1633,8 +1633,10 @@ static const struct file_operations jffs
 {
 	.open		= generic_file_open,
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.ioctl		= jffs_ioctl,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_readonly_mmap,
 	.fsync		= jffs_fsync,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/jffs2/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/jffs2/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/jffs2/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ const struct file_operations jffs2_file_
 {
 	.llseek =	generic_file_llseek,
 	.open =		generic_file_open,
-	.read =		generic_file_read,
-	.write =	generic_file_write,
+	.read =		do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read =	generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write =	do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write =	generic_file_aio_write,
 	.ioctl =	jffs2_ioctl,
 	.mmap =		generic_file_readonly_mmap,
 	.fsync =	jffs2_fsync,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/jfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/jfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/jfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ struct inode_operations jfs_file_inode_o
 const struct file_operations jfs_file_operations = {
 	.open		= jfs_open,
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/minix/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/minix/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/minix/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ int minix_sync_file(struct file *, struc
 
 const struct file_operations minix_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.fsync		= minix_sync_file,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -2294,7 +2294,7 @@ static int ntfs_file_fsync(struct file *
 
 const struct file_operations ntfs_file_ops = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,	 /* Seek inside file. */
-	.read		= generic_file_read,	 /* Read from file. */
+	.read		= do_sync_read,		 /* Read from file. */
 	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read, /* Async read from file. */
 #ifdef NTFS_RW
 	.write		= ntfs_file_write,	 /* Write to file. */
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/qnx4/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/qnx4/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/qnx4/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@
 const struct file_operations qnx4_file_operations =
 {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 #ifdef CONFIG_QNX4FS_RW
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.fsync		= qnx4_sync_file,
 #endif
 };
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@ struct address_space_operations ramfs_ao
 };
 
 const struct file_operations ramfs_file_operations = {
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.fsync		= simple_sync_file,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@ struct address_space_operations ramfs_ao
 const struct file_operations ramfs_file_operations = {
 	.mmap			= ramfs_nommu_mmap,
 	.get_unmapped_area	= ramfs_nommu_get_unmapped_area,
-	.read			= generic_file_read,
-	.write			= generic_file_write,
+	.read			= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read		= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write			= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write		= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.fsync			= simple_sync_file,
 	.sendfile		= generic_file_sendfile,
 	.llseek			= generic_file_llseek,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/read_write.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@
 
 const struct file_operations generic_ro_fops = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_readonly_mmap,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
 };
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -1590,11 +1590,8 @@ extern int generic_file_mmap(struct file
 extern int generic_file_readonly_mmap(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 extern int file_read_actor(read_descriptor_t * desc, struct page *page, unsigned long offset, unsigned long size);
 extern int file_send_actor(read_descriptor_t * desc, struct page *page, unsigned long offset, unsigned long size);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_read(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
 int generic_write_checks(struct file *file, loff_t *pos, size_t *count, int isblk);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
-extern ssize_t __generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
 		unsigned long, loff_t);
@@ -1604,8 +1601,6 @@ extern ssize_t generic_file_buffered_wri
 		unsigned long, loff_t, loff_t *, size_t, ssize_t);
 extern ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos);
 extern ssize_t do_sync_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos);
-ssize_t generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_sendfile(struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, read_actor_t, void *);
 extern void do_generic_mapping_read(struct address_space *mapping,
 				    struct file_ra_state *, struct file *,
Index: linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/mm/filemap.c	2006-06-21 14:39:29.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -1050,13 +1050,14 @@ success:
  * that can use the page cache directly.
  */
 ssize_t
-__generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
-		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	ssize_t retval;
 	unsigned long seg;
 	size_t count;
+	loff_t *ppos = &iocb->ki_pos;
 
 	count = 0;
 	for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
@@ -1080,7 +1081,7 @@ __generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *io
 
 	/* coalesce the iovecs and go direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT */
 	if (filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) {
-		loff_t pos = *ppos, size;
+		loff_t size;
 		struct address_space *mapping;
 		struct inode *inode;
 
@@ -1125,33 +1126,8 @@ out:
 	return retval;
 }
 
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(__generic_file_aio_read);
-
-ssize_t
-generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
-		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
-{
-	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
-	return __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
-}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_read);
 
-ssize_t
-generic_file_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = count };
-	struct kiocb kiocb;
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_read(&kiocb, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
-	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
-		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_read);
-
 int file_send_actor(read_descriptor_t * desc, struct page *page, unsigned long offset, unsigned long size)
 {
 	ssize_t written;
@@ -2218,38 +2194,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_aio_write_nolock(st
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write_nolock);
 
-static ssize_t
-__generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct kiocb kiocb;
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
-	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
-		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
-	return ret;
-}
-
-ssize_t
-generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
-				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct kiocb kiocb;
-	ssize_t ret;
-
-	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
-	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, *ppos);
-	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
-		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
-	*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
-	return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write_nolock);
-
 ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
@@ -2276,30 +2220,6 @@ ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct ki
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write);
 
-ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
-			   size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
-	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
-	ssize_t	ret;
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-					.iov_len = count };
-
-	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = __generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-
-	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
-		ssize_t err;
-
-		err = sync_page_range(inode, mapping, *ppos - ret, ret);
-		if (err < 0)
-			ret = err;
-	}
-	return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write);
-
 /*
  * Called under i_mutex for writes to S_ISREG files.   Returns -EIO if something
  * went wrong during pagecache shootdown.
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -276,7 +276,9 @@ xfs_read(
 
 	xfs_rw_enter_trace(XFS_READ_ENTER, &ip->i_iocore,
 				(void *)iovp, segs, *offset, ioflags);
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iovp, segs, offset);
+
+	iocb->ki_pos = *offset;
+	ret = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iovp, segs, *offset);
 	if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED && !(ioflags & IO_ISAIO))
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(iocb);
 	if (ret > 0)
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/smbfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/smbfs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/smbfs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -214,13 +214,15 @@ smb_updatepage(struct file *file, struct
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-smb_file_read(struct file * file, char __user * buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+smb_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
+	struct file * file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct dentry * dentry = file->f_dentry;
 	ssize_t	status;
 
 	VERBOSE("file %s/%s, count=%lu@%lu\n", DENTRY_PATH(dentry),
-		(unsigned long) count, (unsigned long) *ppos);
+		(unsigned long) iocb->ki_left, (unsigned long) pos);
 
 	status = smb_revalidate_inode(dentry);
 	if (status) {
@@ -233,7 +235,7 @@ smb_file_read(struct file * file, char _
 		(long)dentry->d_inode->i_size,
 		dentry->d_inode->i_flags, dentry->d_inode->i_atime);
 
-	status = generic_file_read(file, buf, count, ppos);
+	status = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 out:
 	return status;
 }
@@ -317,14 +319,16 @@ struct address_space_operations smb_file
  * Write to a file (through the page cache).
  */
 static ssize_t
-smb_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+smb_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			       unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
+	struct file * file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct dentry * dentry = file->f_dentry;
 	ssize_t	result;
 
 	VERBOSE("file %s/%s, count=%lu@%lu\n",
 		DENTRY_PATH(dentry),
-		(unsigned long) count, (unsigned long) *ppos);
+		(unsigned long) iocb->ki_left, (unsigned long) pos);
 
 	result = smb_revalidate_inode(dentry);
 	if (result) {
@@ -337,8 +341,8 @@ smb_file_write(struct file *file, const 
 	if (result)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (count > 0) {
-		result = generic_file_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
+	if (iocb->ki_left > 0) {
+		result = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 		VERBOSE("pos=%ld, size=%ld, mtime=%ld, atime=%ld\n",
 			(long) file->f_pos, (long) dentry->d_inode->i_size,
 			dentry->d_inode->i_mtime, dentry->d_inode->i_atime);
@@ -402,8 +406,10 @@ smb_file_permission(struct inode *inode,
 const struct file_operations smb_file_operations =
 {
 	.llseek		= remote_llseek,
-	.read		= smb_file_read,
-	.write		= smb_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= smb_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= smb_file_aio_write,
 	.ioctl		= smb_ioctl,
 	.mmap		= smb_file_mmap,
 	.open		= smb_file_open,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/sysv/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/sysv/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/sysv/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -21,8 +21,10 @@
  */
 const struct file_operations sysv_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.fsync		= sysv_sync_file,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/udf/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/udf/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/udf/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -103,19 +103,21 @@ struct address_space_operations udf_adin
 	.commit_write		= udf_adinicb_commit_write,
 };
 
-static ssize_t udf_file_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
-	size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+static ssize_t udf_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			      unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t ppos)
 {
 	ssize_t retval;
+	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	int err, pos;
+	size_t count = iocb->ki_left;
 
 	if (UDF_I_ALLOCTYPE(inode) == ICBTAG_FLAG_AD_IN_ICB)
 	{
 		if (file->f_flags & O_APPEND)
 			pos = inode->i_size;
 		else
-			pos = *ppos;
+			pos = ppos;
 
 		if (inode->i_sb->s_blocksize < (udf_file_entry_alloc_offset(inode) +
 			pos + count))
@@ -136,7 +138,7 @@ static ssize_t udf_file_write(struct fil
 		}
 	}
 
-	retval = generic_file_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
+	retval = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
 
 	if (retval > 0)
 		mark_inode_dirty(inode);
@@ -249,11 +251,13 @@ static int udf_release_file(struct inode
 }
 
 const struct file_operations udf_file_operations = {
-	.read			= generic_file_read,
+	.read			= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read		= generic_file_aio_read,
 	.ioctl			= udf_ioctl,
 	.open			= generic_file_open,
 	.mmap			= generic_file_mmap,
-	.write			= udf_file_write,
+	.write			= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write		= udf_file_aio_write,
 	.release		= udf_release_file,
 	.fsync			= udf_fsync_file,
 	.sendfile		= generic_file_sendfile,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ufs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ufs/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ufs/file.c	2006-06-21 14:39:33.000000000 -0700
@@ -33,8 +33,10 @@
  
 const struct file_operations ufs_file_operations = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
-	.read		= generic_file_read,
-	.write		= generic_file_write,
+	.read		= do_sync_read,
+	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
+	.write		= do_sync_write,
+	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.open           = generic_file_open,
 	.sendfile	= generic_file_sendfile,



^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* [PATCH 1/3] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods
  2006-07-06  0:02 [2.6.17-mm6 PATCH 0/3] VFS fileop cleanups by collapsing AIO and vector IO Badari Pulavarty
@ 2006-07-06  0:03 ` Badari Pulavarty
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Badari Pulavarty @ 2006-07-06  0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: lkml

This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare
for collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface -
which is aio_read()/aio_write().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

 Documentation/filesystems/Locking |    5 --
 Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt |    4 -
 drivers/char/raw.c                |   14 ------
 drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c        |   78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 fs/aio.c                          |   15 +++++--
 fs/block_dev.c                    |   10 ----
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c                  |    6 +-
 fs/ext3/file.c                    |    5 +-
 fs/gfs2/ops_file.c                |   30 +++++---------
 fs/nfs/direct.c                   |   26 +++++++++---
 fs/nfs/file.c                     |   34 ++++++++--------
 fs/ntfs/file.c                    |    8 +--
 fs/ocfs2/file.c                   |   28 ++++++-------
 fs/read_write.c                   |   20 +++++++--
 fs/reiserfs/file.c                |    4 -
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c       |   46 +++++++++++-----------
 include/linux/aio.h               |    2 
 include/linux/fs.h                |   10 ++--
 include/linux/nfs_fs.h            |   10 ++--
 include/net/sock.h                |    1 
 mm/filemap.c                      |   39 +++++++++----------
 net/socket.c                      |   48 +++++++++++------------
 22 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 202 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2006-07-05 10:57:25.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/Locking	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -356,10 +356,9 @@ The last two are called only from check_
 prototypes:
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t,
-			loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int,
Index: linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt	2006-07-05 10:57:25.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -699,9 +699,9 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulat
 struct file_operations {
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-07-05 10:57:31.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/raw.c	2006-07-05 11:00:02.000000000 -0700
@@ -249,23 +249,11 @@ static ssize_t raw_file_write(struct fil
 	return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
 }
 
-static ssize_t raw_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-					size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = {
-		.iov_base = (char __user *)buf,
-		.iov_len = count
-	};
-
-	return generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
-}
-
-
 static const struct file_operations raw_fops = {
 	.read	=	generic_file_read,
 	.aio_read = 	generic_file_aio_read,
 	.write	=	raw_file_write,
-	.aio_write = 	raw_file_aio_write,
+	.aio_write = 	generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
 	.open	=	raw_open,
 	.release=	raw_release,
 	.ioctl	=	raw_ioctl,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/aio.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/aio.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/aio.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 
 #define DEBUG 0
 
@@ -1315,8 +1316,11 @@ static ssize_t aio_pread(struct kiocb *i
 	ssize_t ret = 0;
 
 	do {
-		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, iocb->ki_buf,
-			iocb->ki_left, iocb->ki_pos);
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_base = iocb->ki_buf;
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_len = iocb->ki_left;
+
+		ret = file->f_op->aio_read(iocb, &iocb->ki_inline_vec,
+						1, iocb->ki_pos);
 		/*
 		 * Can't just depend on iocb->ki_left to determine
 		 * whether we are done. This may have been a short read.
@@ -1349,8 +1353,11 @@ static ssize_t aio_pwrite(struct kiocb *
 	ssize_t ret = 0;
 
 	do {
-		ret = file->f_op->aio_write(iocb, iocb->ki_buf,
-			iocb->ki_left, iocb->ki_pos);
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_base = iocb->ki_buf;
+		iocb->ki_inline_vec.iov_len = iocb->ki_left;
+
+		ret = file->f_op->aio_write(iocb, &iocb->ki_inline_vec,
+						1, iocb->ki_pos);
 		if (ret > 0) {
 			iocb->ki_buf += ret;
 			iocb->ki_left -= ret;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/block_dev.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/block_dev.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -1161,14 +1161,6 @@ static ssize_t blkdev_file_write(struct 
 	return generic_file_write_nolock(file, &local_iov, 1, ppos);
 }
 
-static ssize_t blkdev_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = count };
-
-	return generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
-}
-
 static long block_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	return blkdev_ioctl(file->f_mapping->host, file, cmd, arg);
@@ -1191,7 +1183,7 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fop
 	.read		= generic_file_read,
 	.write		= blkdev_file_write,
   	.aio_read	= generic_file_aio_read,
-  	.aio_write	= blkdev_file_aio_write, 
+  	.aio_write	= generic_file_aio_write_nolock,
 	.mmap		= generic_file_mmap,
 	.fsync		= block_fsync,
 	.unlocked_ioctl	= block_ioctl,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -498,13 +498,13 @@ static ssize_t cifs_file_writev(struct f
 	return written;
 }
 
-static ssize_t cifs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t cifs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				   unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t written;
 
-	written = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	written = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 	if (!CIFS_I(inode)->clientCanCacheAll)
 		filemap_fdatawrite(inode->i_mapping);
 	return written;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ext3/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ext3/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ext3/file.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -48,14 +48,15 @@ static int ext3_release_file (struct ino
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ext3_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t ret;
 	int err;
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 
 	/*
 	 * Skip flushing if there was an error, or if nothing was written.
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/read_write.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/read_write.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -227,14 +227,20 @@ static void wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(str
 
 ssize_t do_sync_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
 {
+	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = len };
 	struct kiocb kiocb;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
 	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	while (-EIOCBRETRY ==
-		(ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, buf, len, kiocb.ki_pos)))
+	kiocb.ki_left = len;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = filp->f_op->aio_read(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
+		if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
+			break;
 		wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	}
 
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
@@ -279,14 +285,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_read);
 
 ssize_t do_sync_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
 {
+	struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf, .iov_len = len };
 	struct kiocb kiocb;
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
 	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
-	while (-EIOCBRETRY ==
-	       (ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, buf, len, kiocb.ki_pos)))
+	kiocb.ki_left = len;
+
+	for (;;) {
+		ret = filp->f_op->aio_write(&kiocb, &iov, 1, kiocb.ki_pos);
+		if (ret != -EIOCBRETRY)
+			break;
 		wait_on_retry_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	}
 
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/reiserfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/reiserfs/file.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/reiserfs/file.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_file_write(struc
 			if (err)
 				return err;
 		}
-		result = generic_file_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
+		result = do_sync_write(file, buf, count, ppos);
 
 		if (after_file_end) {	/* Now update i_size and remove the savelink */
 			struct reiserfs_transaction_handle th;
@@ -1565,7 +1565,7 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_file_write(struc
 }
 
 const struct file_operations reiserfs_file_operations = {
-	.read = generic_file_read,
+	.read = do_sync_read,
 	.write = reiserfs_file_write,
 	.ioctl = reiserfs_ioctl,
 	.mmap = generic_file_mmap,
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -49,50 +49,49 @@ static struct vm_operations_struct xfs_d
 STATIC inline ssize_t
 __xfs_file_read(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	int			ioflags,
-	size_t			count,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	struct iovec		iov = {buf, count};
 	struct file		*file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	bhv_vnode_t		*vp = vn_from_inode(file->f_dentry->d_inode);
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
 		ioflags |= IO_ISDIRECT;
-	return bhv_vop_read(vp, iocb, &iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL);
+	return bhv_vop_read(vp, iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos,
+				ioflags, NULL);
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_read(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_read_invis(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	char			__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC inline ssize_t
 __xfs_file_write(
-	struct kiocb	*iocb,
-	const char	__user *buf,
-	int		ioflags,
-	size_t		count,
-	loff_t		pos)
+	struct kiocb		*iocb,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
+	int			ioflags,
+	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	struct iovec	iov = {(void __user *)buf, count};
 	struct file	*file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode	*inode = file->f_mapping->host;
 	bhv_vnode_t	*vp = vn_from_inode(inode);
@@ -100,27 +99,28 @@ __xfs_file_write(
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 	if (unlikely(file->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
 		ioflags |= IO_ISDIRECT;
-	return bhv_vop_write(vp, iocb, &iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos, ioflags, NULL);
+	return bhv_vop_write(vp, iocb, &iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos,
+				ioflags, NULL);
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_write(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	const char		__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_aio_write_invis(
 	struct kiocb		*iocb,
-	const char		__user *buf,
-	size_t			count,
+	const struct iovec	*iov,
+	unsigned long		nr_segs,
 	loff_t			pos)
 {
-	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, buf, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, count, pos);
+	return __xfs_file_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, IO_ISAIO|IO_INVIS, pos);
 }
 
 STATIC inline ssize_t
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2006-07-05 10:57:46.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/fs.h	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -1103,9 +1103,9 @@ struct file_operations {
 	struct module *owner;
 	loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int);
 	ssize_t (*read) (struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
 	ssize_t (*write) (struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_read) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
+	ssize_t (*aio_write) (struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 	int (*readdir) (struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 	unsigned int (*poll) (struct file *, struct poll_table_struct *);
 	int (*ioctl) (struct inode *, struct file *, unsigned int, unsigned long);
@@ -1700,11 +1700,11 @@ extern int file_send_actor(read_descript
 extern ssize_t generic_file_read(struct file *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
 int generic_write_checks(struct file *file, loff_t *pos, size_t *count, int isblk);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t __generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t *);
-extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
-		unsigned long, loff_t *);
+		unsigned long, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
 		unsigned long *, loff_t, loff_t *, size_t, size_t);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *,
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/net/sock.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/net/sock.h	2006-07-05 10:57:46.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/net/sock.h	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -665,7 +665,6 @@ struct sock_iocb {
 	struct sock		*sk;
 	struct scm_cookie	*scm;
 	struct msghdr		*msg, async_msg;
-	struct iovec		async_iov;
 	struct kiocb		*kiocb;
 };
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/mm/filemap.c	2006-07-05 10:57:46.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/mm/filemap.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -1283,12 +1283,11 @@ out:
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__generic_file_aio_read);
 
 ssize_t
-generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+generic_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = count };
-
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
-	return __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
+	return __generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_read);
 
@@ -2394,22 +2393,22 @@ out:
 	current->backing_dev_info = NULL;
 	return written ? written : err;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write_nolock);
 
-ssize_t
-generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
-				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+ssize_t generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *iocb,
+		const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	loff_t pos = *ppos;
 
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
+
+	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs,
+			&iocb->ki_pos);
 
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
-		int err;
+		ssize_t err;
 
 		err = sync_page_range_nolock(inode, mapping, pos, ret);
 		if (err < 0)
@@ -2417,6 +2416,7 @@ generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kio
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_aio_write_nolock);
 
 static ssize_t
 __generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
@@ -2426,8 +2426,9 @@ __generic_file_write_nolock(struct file 
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
 	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
-	if (ret == -EIOCBQUEUED)
+	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -2440,28 +2441,28 @@ generic_file_write_nolock(struct file *f
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, file);
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, *ppos);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
+	*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_write_nolock);
 
-ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-			       size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-					.iov_len = count };
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1,
-						&iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = __generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs,
+			&iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
Index: linux-2.6.17/net/socket.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/net/socket.c	2006-07-05 10:57:50.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/net/socket.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@
 #include <linux/netfilter.h>
 
 static int sock_no_open(struct inode *irrelevant, struct file *dontcare);
-static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf,
-			 size_t size, loff_t pos);
-static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-			  size_t size, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			 unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			  unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
 static int sock_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct * vma);
 
 static int sock_close(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ static ssize_t sock_sendpage(struct file
 }
 
 static struct sock_iocb *alloc_sock_iocb(struct kiocb *iocb,
-		char __user *ubuf, size_t size, struct sock_iocb *siocb)
+		struct sock_iocb *siocb)
 {
 	if (!is_sync_kiocb(iocb)) {
 		siocb = kmalloc(sizeof(*siocb), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -712,15 +712,13 @@ static struct sock_iocb *alloc_sock_iocb
 	}
 
 	siocb->kiocb = iocb;
-	siocb->async_iov.iov_base = ubuf;
-	siocb->async_iov.iov_len = size;
-
 	iocb->private = siocb;
 	return siocb;
 }
 
 static ssize_t do_sock_read(struct msghdr *msg, struct kiocb *iocb,
-		struct file *file, struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
+		struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
 	struct socket *sock = file->private_data;
 	size_t size = 0;
@@ -751,31 +749,33 @@ static ssize_t sock_readv(struct file *f
         init_sync_kiocb(&iocb, NULL);
 	iocb.private = &siocb;
 
-	ret = do_sock_read(&msg, &iocb, file, (struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs);
+	ret = do_sock_read(&msg, &iocb, file, iov, nr_segs);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&iocb);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *ubuf,
-			 size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t sock_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			 unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct sock_iocb siocb, *x;
 
 	if (pos != 0)
 		return -ESPIPE;
-	if (count == 0)		/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
+
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)	/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
 		return 0;
 
-	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, ubuf, count, &siocb);
+
+	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, &siocb);
 	if (!x)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	return do_sock_read(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp,
-			&x->async_iov, 1);
+	return do_sock_read(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp, iov, nr_segs);
 }
 
 static ssize_t do_sock_write(struct msghdr *msg, struct kiocb *iocb,
-		struct file *file, struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
+		struct file *file, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs)
 {
 	struct socket *sock = file->private_data;
 	size_t size = 0;
@@ -808,28 +808,28 @@ static ssize_t sock_writev(struct file *
 	init_sync_kiocb(&iocb, NULL);
 	iocb.private = &siocb;
 
-	ret = do_sock_write(&msg, &iocb, file, (struct iovec *)iov, nr_segs);
+	ret = do_sock_write(&msg, &iocb, file, iov, nr_segs);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&iocb);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *ubuf,
-			  size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t sock_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+			  unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct sock_iocb siocb, *x;
 
 	if (pos != 0)
 		return -ESPIPE;
-	if (count == 0)		/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
+
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)	/* Match SYS5 behaviour */
 		return 0;
 
-	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, (void __user *)ubuf, count, &siocb);
+	x = alloc_sock_iocb(iocb, &siocb);
 	if (!x)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	return do_sock_write(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp,
-			&x->async_iov, 1);
+	return do_sock_write(&x->async_msg, iocb, iocb->ki_filp, iov, nr_segs);
 }
 
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c	2006-07-05 10:57:38.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -528,7 +528,8 @@ struct kiocb_priv {
 	struct usb_request	*req;
 	struct ep_data		*epdata;
 	void			*buf;
-	char __user		*ubuf;		/* NULL for writes */
+	const struct iovec	*iv;
+	unsigned long		nr_segs;
 	unsigned		actual;
 };
 
@@ -556,17 +557,32 @@ static int ep_aio_cancel(struct kiocb *i
 static ssize_t ep_aio_read_retry(struct kiocb *iocb)
 {
 	struct kiocb_priv	*priv = iocb->private;
-	ssize_t			status = priv->actual;
+	ssize_t			len, total;
+	int			i;
 
-	/* we "retry" to get the right mm context for this: */
-	status = copy_to_user(priv->ubuf, priv->buf, priv->actual);
-	if (unlikely(0 != status))
-		status = -EFAULT;
-	else
-		status = priv->actual;
-	kfree(priv->buf);
-	kfree(priv);
-	return status;
+  	/* we "retry" to get the right mm context for this: */
+
+ 	/* copy stuff into user buffers */
+ 	total = priv->actual;
+ 	len = 0;
+ 	for (i=0; i < priv->nr_segs; i++) {
+ 		ssize_t this = min((ssize_t)(priv->iv[i].iov_len), total);
+
+ 		if (copy_to_user(priv->iv[i].iov_base, priv->buf, this)) {
+ 			if (len == 0)
+ 				len = -EFAULT;
+ 			break;
+ 		}
+
+ 		total -= this;
+ 		len += this;
+ 		if (total == 0)
+ 			break;
+ 	}
+  	kfree(priv->buf);
+  	kfree(priv);
+  	aio_put_req(iocb);
+ 	return len;
 }
 
 static void ep_aio_complete(struct usb_ep *ep, struct usb_request *req)
@@ -579,7 +595,7 @@ static void ep_aio_complete(struct usb_e
 	spin_lock(&epdata->dev->lock);
 	priv->req = NULL;
 	priv->epdata = NULL;
-	if (priv->ubuf == NULL
+	if (priv->iv == NULL
 			|| unlikely(req->actual == 0)
 			|| unlikely(kiocbIsCancelled(iocb))) {
 		kfree(req->buf);
@@ -614,7 +630,8 @@ ep_aio_rwtail(
 	char		*buf,
 	size_t		len,
 	struct ep_data	*epdata,
-	char __user	*ubuf
+	const struct iovec *iv,
+	unsigned long 	nr_segs
 )
 {
 	struct kiocb_priv	*priv;
@@ -629,7 +646,8 @@ fail:
 		return value;
 	}
 	iocb->private = priv;
-	priv->ubuf = ubuf;
+	priv->iv = iv;
+	priv->nr_segs = nr_segs;
 
 	value = get_ready_ep(iocb->ki_filp->f_flags, epdata);
 	if (unlikely(value < 0)) {
@@ -669,41 +687,53 @@ fail:
 		kfree(priv);
 		put_ep(epdata);
 	} else
-		value = (ubuf ? -EIOCBRETRY : -EIOCBQUEUED);
+		value = (iv ? -EIOCBRETRY : -EIOCBQUEUED);
 	return value;
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ep_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *ubuf, size_t len, loff_t o)
+ep_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t o)
 {
 	struct ep_data		*epdata = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 	char			*buf;
 
 	if (unlikely(epdata->desc.bEndpointAddress & USB_DIR_IN))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	buf = kmalloc(iocb->ki_left, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!buf))
 		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	iocb->ki_retry = ep_aio_read_retry;
-	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, ubuf);
+	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, iocb->ki_left, epdata, iov, nr_segs);
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-ep_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *ubuf, size_t len, loff_t o)
+ep_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t o)
 {
 	struct ep_data		*epdata = iocb->ki_filp->private_data;
 	char			*buf;
+	size_t			len = 0;
+	int			i = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(!(epdata->desc.bEndpointAddress & USB_DIR_IN)))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+
+	buf = kmalloc(iocb->ki_left, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (unlikely(!buf))
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	if (unlikely(copy_from_user(buf, ubuf, len) != 0)) {
-		kfree(buf);
-		return -EFAULT;
+
+	for (i=0; i < nr_segs; i++) {
+		if (unlikely(copy_from_user(&buf[len], iov[i].iov_base,
+				iov[i].iov_len) != 0)) {
+			kfree(buf);
+			return -EFAULT;
+		}
+		len += iov[i].iov_len;
 	}
-	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, NULL);
+	return ep_aio_rwtail(iocb, buf, len, epdata, NULL, 0);
 }
 
 /*----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/aio.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/aio.h	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/aio.h	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
+#include <linux/uio.h>
 
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ struct kiocb {
 	long			ki_retried; 	/* just for testing */
 	long			ki_kicked; 	/* just for testing */
 	long			ki_queued; 	/* just for testing */
+	struct iovec		ki_inline_vec;	/* inline vector */
 
 	struct list_head	ki_list;	/* the aio core uses this
 						 * for cancellation */
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/direct.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/nfs/direct.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/direct.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -729,8 +729,8 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write(struct k
 /**
  * nfs_file_direct_read - file direct read operation for NFS files
  * @iocb: target I/O control block
- * @buf: user's buffer into which to read data
- * @count: number of bytes to read
+ * @iov: vector of user buffers into which to read data
+ * @nr_segs: size of iov vector
  * @pos: byte offset in file where reading starts
  *
  * We use this function for direct reads instead of calling
@@ -747,17 +747,24 @@ static ssize_t nfs_direct_write(struct k
  * client must read the updated atime from the server back into its
  * cache.
  */
-ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	ssize_t retval = -EINVAL;
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
+	/* XXX: temporary */
+	const char __user *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
+	size_t count = iov[0].iov_len;
 
 	dprintk("nfs: direct read(%s/%s, %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		file->f_dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
 		file->f_dentry->d_name.name,
 		(unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
+	if (nr_segs != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (count < 0)
 		goto out;
 	retval = -EFAULT;
@@ -782,8 +789,8 @@ out:
 /**
  * nfs_file_direct_write - file direct write operation for NFS files
  * @iocb: target I/O control block
- * @buf: user's buffer from which to write data
- * @count: number of bytes to write
+ * @iov: vector of user buffers from which to write data
+ * @nr_segs: size of iov vector
  * @pos: byte offset in file where writing starts
  *
  * We use this function for direct writes instead of calling
@@ -804,17 +811,24 @@ out:
  * Note that O_APPEND is not supported for NFS direct writes, as there
  * is no atomic O_APPEND write facility in the NFS protocol.
  */
-ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	ssize_t retval;
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
+	/* XXX: temporary */
+	const char __user *buf = iov[0].iov_base;
+	size_t count = iov[0].iov_len;
 
 	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: direct write(%s/%s, %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		file->f_dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
 		file->f_dentry->d_name.name,
 		(unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
+	if (nr_segs != 1)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	retval = generic_write_checks(file, &pos, &count, 0);
 	if (retval)
 		goto out;
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/nfs/file.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/nfs/file.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ static int nfs_file_release(struct inode
 static loff_t nfs_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin);
 static int  nfs_file_mmap(struct file *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 static ssize_t nfs_file_sendfile(struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, read_actor_t, void *);
-static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *, char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
-static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t);
+static ssize_t nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
+static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos);
 static int  nfs_file_flush(struct file *, fl_owner_t id);
 static int  nfs_fsync(struct file *, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync);
 static int nfs_check_flags(int flags);
@@ -53,8 +55,8 @@ const struct file_operations nfs_file_op
 	.llseek		= nfs_file_llseek,
 	.read		= do_sync_read,
 	.write		= do_sync_write,
-	.aio_read		= nfs_file_read,
-	.aio_write		= nfs_file_write,
+	.aio_read	= nfs_file_read,
+	.aio_write	= nfs_file_write,
 	.mmap		= nfs_file_mmap,
 	.open		= nfs_file_open,
 	.flush		= nfs_file_flush,
@@ -196,15 +198,17 @@ nfs_file_flush(struct file *file, fl_own
 }
 
 static ssize_t
-nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user * buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct dentry * dentry = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry;
 	struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t result;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO
 	if (iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
-		return nfs_file_direct_read(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		return nfs_file_direct_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 #endif
 
 	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: read(%s/%s, %lu@%lu)\n",
@@ -214,7 +218,7 @@ nfs_file_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char _
 	result = nfs_revalidate_mapping(inode, iocb->ki_filp->f_mapping);
 	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_NORMALREADBYTES, count);
 	if (!result)
-		result = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		result = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 	return result;
 }
 
@@ -330,24 +334,22 @@ const struct address_space_operations nf
 #endif
 };
 
-/* 
- * Write to a file (through the page cache).
- */
-static ssize_t
-nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+				unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct dentry * dentry = iocb->ki_filp->f_dentry;
 	struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	ssize_t result;
+	size_t count = iov_length(iov, nr_segs);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_DIRECTIO
 	if (iocb->ki_filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT)
-		return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+		return nfs_file_direct_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 #endif
 
-	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: write(%s/%s(%ld), %lu@%lu)\n",
+	dfprintk(VFS, "nfs: write(%s/%s(%ld), %lu@%Ld)\n",
 		dentry->d_parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name,
-		inode->i_ino, (unsigned long) count, (unsigned long) pos);
+		inode->i_ino, (unsigned long) count, (long long) pos);
 
 	result = -EBUSY;
 	if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode))
@@ -366,7 +368,7 @@ nfs_file_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const
 		goto out;
 
 	nfs_add_stats(inode, NFSIOS_NORMALWRITTENBYTES, count);
-	result = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, buf, count, pos);
+	result = generic_file_aio_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos);
 out:
 	return result;
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/include/linux/nfs_fs.h	2006-07-05 10:57:46.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/linux/nfs_fs.h	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -368,10 +368,12 @@ extern int nfs3_removexattr (struct dent
  */
 extern ssize_t nfs_direct_IO(int, struct kiocb *, const struct iovec *, loff_t,
 			unsigned long);
-extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf,
-			size_t count, loff_t pos);
-extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-			size_t count, loff_t pos);
+extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
+			const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs,
+			loff_t pos);
+extern ssize_t nfs_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
+			const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs,
+			loff_t pos);
 
 /*
  * linux/fs/nfs/dir.c
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ocfs2/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ocfs2/file.c	2006-06-17 18:49:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ocfs2/file.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -960,25 +960,23 @@ static inline int ocfs2_write_should_rem
 }
 
 static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb,
-				    const char __user *buf,
-				    size_t count,
+				    const struct iovec *iov,
+				    unsigned long nr_segs,
 				    loff_t pos)
 {
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-				   .iov_len = count };
 	int ret, rw_level = -1, meta_level = -1, have_alloc_sem = 0;
 	u32 clusters;
 	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 	loff_t newsize, saved_pos;
 
-	mlog_entry("(0x%p, 0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp, buf,
-		   (unsigned int)count,
+	mlog_entry("(0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp,
+		   (unsigned int)nr_segs,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.len,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.name);
 
 	/* happy write of zero bytes */
-	if (count == 0)
+	if (iocb->ki_left == 0)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!inode) {
@@ -1047,7 +1045,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 		} else {
 			saved_pos = iocb->ki_pos;
 		}
-		newsize = count + saved_pos;
+		newsize = iocb->ki_left + saved_pos;
 
 		mlog(0, "pos=%lld newsize=%lld cursize=%lld\n",
 		     (long long) saved_pos, (long long) newsize,
@@ -1080,7 +1078,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 		if (!clusters)
 			break;
 
-		ret = ocfs2_extend_file(inode, NULL, newsize, count);
+		ret = ocfs2_extend_file(inode, NULL, newsize, iocb->ki_left);
 		if (ret < 0) {
 			if (ret != -ENOSPC)
 				mlog_errno(ret);
@@ -1097,7 +1095,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_write(stru
 	/* communicate with ocfs2_dio_end_io */
 	ocfs2_iocb_set_rw_locked(iocb);
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, iocb->ki_pos);
 
 	/* buffered aio wouldn't have proper lock coverage today */
 	BUG_ON(ret == -EIOCBQUEUED && !(filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT));
@@ -1131,16 +1129,16 @@ out:
 }
 
 static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
-				   char __user *buf,
-				   size_t count,
+				   const struct iovec *iov,
+				   unsigned long nr_segs,
 				   loff_t pos)
 {
 	int ret = 0, rw_level = -1, have_alloc_sem = 0;
 	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct inode *inode = filp->f_dentry->d_inode;
 
-	mlog_entry("(0x%p, 0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp, buf,
-		   (unsigned int)count,
+	mlog_entry("(0x%p, %u, '%.*s')\n", filp,
+		   (unsigned int)nr_segs,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.len,
 		   filp->f_dentry->d_name.name);
 
@@ -1184,7 +1182,7 @@ static ssize_t ocfs2_file_aio_read(struc
 	}
 	ocfs2_meta_unlock(inode, 0);
 
-	ret = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, buf, count, iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = generic_file_aio_read(iocb, iov, nr_segs, iocb->ki_pos);
 	if (ret == -EINVAL)
 		mlog(ML_ERROR, "generic_file_aio_read returned -EINVAL\n");
 
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/ntfs/file.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -2176,20 +2176,18 @@ out:
 /**
  * ntfs_file_aio_write -
  */
-static ssize_t ntfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const char __user *buf,
-		size_t count, loff_t pos)
+static ssize_t ntfs_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
+		unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *file = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	ssize_t ret;
-	struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = (void __user *)buf,
-				   .iov_len = count };
 
 	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 
 	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
-	ret = ntfs_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
+	ret = ntfs_file_aio_write_nolock(iocb, iov, nr_segs, &iocb->ki_pos);
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	if (ret > 0 && ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(inode))) {
 		int err = sync_page_range(inode, mapping, pos, ret);
Index: linux-2.6.17/fs/gfs2/ops_file.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/fs/gfs2/ops_file.c	2006-07-05 10:57:39.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17/fs/gfs2/ops_file.c	2006-07-05 10:58:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_direct_IO_read(struc
 }
 
 /**
- * __gfs2_file_aio_read - The main GFS2 read function
+ * gfs2_file_aio_read - The main GFS2 read function
  * 
  * N.B. This is almost, but not quite the same as __generic_file_aio_read()
  * the important subtle different being that inode->i_size isn't valid
@@ -173,9 +173,9 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_direct_IO_read(struc
  * path since otherwise locking is done entirely at the page cache
  * layer.
  */
-static ssize_t __gfs2_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
+static ssize_t gfs2_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb,
 				    const struct iovec *iov,
-				    unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t *ppos)
+				    unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos)
 {
 	struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp;
 	struct gfs2_inode *ip = GFS2_I(filp->f_mapping->host);
@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ static ssize_t __gfs2_file_aio_read(stru
 	unsigned long seg;
 	size_t count;
 
+	BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
 	count = 0;
 	for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) {
 		const struct iovec *iv = &iov[seg];
@@ -206,7 +207,7 @@ static ssize_t __gfs2_file_aio_read(stru
 
 	/* coalesce the iovecs and go direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT */
 	if (filp->f_flags & O_DIRECT) {
-		loff_t pos = *ppos, size;
+		loff_t size;
 		struct address_space *mapping;
 		struct inode *inode;
 
@@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ static ssize_t __gfs2_file_aio_read(stru
 			if (retval > 0 && !is_sync_kiocb(iocb))
 				retval = -EIOCBQUEUED;
 			if (retval > 0)
-				*ppos = pos + retval;
+				iocb->ki_pos = pos + retval;
 		}
 		file_accessed(filp);
 		gfs2_glock_dq_m(1, &gh);
@@ -251,7 +252,8 @@ fallback_to_normal:
 			if (desc.count == 0)
 				continue;
 			desc.error = 0;
-			do_generic_file_read(filp,ppos,&desc,file_read_actor);
+			do_generic_file_read(filp, &iocb->ki_pos, &desc,
+						file_read_actor);
 			retval += desc.written;
 			if (desc.error) {
 				retval = retval ?: desc.error;
@@ -283,7 +285,8 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_read(struct file *fi
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
-	ret = __gfs2_file_aio_read(&kiocb, &local_iov, 1, offset);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *offset;
+	ret = gfs2_file_aio_read(&kiocb, &local_iov, 1, *offset);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
 	return ret;
@@ -296,22 +299,13 @@ static ssize_t gfs2_file_readv(struct fi
 	ssize_t ret;
 
 	init_sync_kiocb(&kiocb, filp);
-	ret = __gfs2_file_aio_read(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, ppos);
+	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
+	ret = gfs2_file_aio_read(&kiocb, iov, nr_segs, *ppos);
 	if (-EIOCBQUEUED == ret)
 		ret = wait_on_sync_kiocb(&kiocb);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static ssize_t gfs2_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, char __user *buf,
-				  size_t count, loff_t pos)
-{
-        struct iovec local_iov = { .iov_base = buf, .iov_len = count };
-
-        BUG_ON(iocb->ki_pos != pos);
-        return __gfs2_file_aio_read(iocb, &local_iov, 1, &iocb->ki_pos);
-}
-
-
 /**
  * filldir_reg_func - Report a directory entry to the caller of gfs2_dir_read()
  * @opaque: opaque data used by the function



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