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authorBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>2006-09-30 23:28:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-01 00:39:28 -0700
commit027445c37282bc1ed26add45e573ad2d3e4860a5 (patch)
tree93eab101a938ffebaea64703033c8649df4d73f0 /Documentation/filesystems
parent9ea0f9499d15c49df23e7aac4332d830c40e12d0 (diff)
[PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods
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> Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index 247d7f619aa2..eb1a6cad21e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -356,10 +356,9 @@ The last two are called only from check_disk_change().
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,
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
index 1cb7e8be927a..cd07c21b8400 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
@@ -699,9 +699,9 @@ This describes how the VFS can manipulate an open file. As of kernel
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);