preadv/pwritev: Add preadv and pwritev system calls.

This patch adds preadv and pwritev system calls.  These syscalls are a
pretty straightforward combination of pread and readv (same for write).
They are quite useful for doing vectored I/O in threaded applications.
Using lseek+readv instead opens race windows you'll have to plug with
locking.

Other systems have such system calls too, for example NetBSD, check
here: http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/preadv.2.html

The application-visible interface provided by glibc should look like
this to be compatible to the existing implementations in the *BSD family:

  ssize_t preadv(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset);
  ssize_t pwritev(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset);

This prototype has one problem though: On 32bit archs is the (64bit)
offset argument unaligned, which the syscall ABI of several archs doesn't
allow to do.  At least s390 needs a wrapper in glibc to handle this.  As
we'll need a wrappers in glibc anyway I've decided to push problem to
glibc entriely and use a syscall prototype which works without
arch-specific wrappers inside the kernel: The offset argument is
explicitly splitted into two 32bit values.

The patch sports the actual system call implementation and the windup in
the x86 system call tables.  Other archs follow as separate patches.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

4 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
index db0c803170ab..a505202086e8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
@@ -828,4 +828,6 @@ ia32_sys_call_table:
 	.quad sys_dup3			/* 330 */
 	.quad sys_pipe2
 	.quad sys_inotify_init1
+	.quad compat_sys_preadv
+	.quad compat_sys_pwritev
 ia32_syscall_end:
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
index f2bba78430a4..6e72d74cf8dc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
@@ -338,6 +338,8 @@
 #define __NR_dup3		330
 #define __NR_pipe2		331
 #define __NR_inotify_init1	332
+#define __NR_preadv		333
+#define __NR_pwritev		334
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
index d2e415e6666f..f81829462325 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
@@ -653,6 +653,10 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_dup3, sys_dup3)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_pipe2, sys_pipe2)
 #define __NR_inotify_init1			294
 __SYSCALL(__NR_inotify_init1, sys_inotify_init1)
+#define __NR_preadv				295
+__SYSCALL(__NR_preadv, sys_preadv)
+#define __NR_pwritev				296
+__SYSCALL(__NR_pwritev, sys_pwritev)
 
 
 #ifndef __NO_STUBS
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S b/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
index 3bdb64829b82..ff5c8736b491 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
@@ -332,3 +332,5 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
 	.long sys_dup3			/* 330 */
 	.long sys_pipe2
 	.long sys_inotify_init1
+	.long sys_preadv
+	.long sys_pwritev