From: Hugh Dickins We have a request for tmpfs to support the AIO interface: easily done, no more than replacing the old shmem_file_read by shmem_file_aio_read, cribbed from generic_file_aio_read. (In 2.6.25 its write side was already changed to use generic_file_aio_write.) Incorporate cleanups from Andrew Morton and Harvey Harrison. Tests out fine with LTP's ltp-aiodio.sh, given hacks (not included) to support O_DIRECT. tmpfs cannot honestly support O_DIRECT: its cache-avoiding-IO nature is at odds with direct IO-avoiding-cache. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Tested-by: Lawrence Greenfield Cc: Christoph Rohland Cc: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Zach Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/shmem.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/shmem.c~tmpfs-support-aio mm/shmem.c --- a/mm/shmem.c~tmpfs-support-aio +++ a/mm/shmem.c @@ -1690,26 +1690,38 @@ static void do_shmem_file_read(struct fi file_accessed(filp); } -static ssize_t shmem_file_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) +static ssize_t shmem_file_aio_read(struct kiocb *iocb, + const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos) { - read_descriptor_t desc; - - if ((ssize_t) count < 0) - return -EINVAL; - if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, buf, count)) - return -EFAULT; - if (!count) - return 0; - - desc.written = 0; - desc.count = count; - desc.arg.buf = buf; - desc.error = 0; - - do_shmem_file_read(filp, ppos, &desc, file_read_actor); - if (desc.written) - return desc.written; - return desc.error; + struct file *filp = iocb->ki_filp; + ssize_t retval; + unsigned long seg; + size_t count; + loff_t *ppos = &iocb->ki_pos; + + retval = generic_segment_checks(iov, &nr_segs, &count, VERIFY_WRITE); + if (retval) + return retval; + + for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++) { + read_descriptor_t desc; + + desc.written = 0; + desc.arg.buf = iov[seg].iov_base; + desc.count = iov[seg].iov_len; + if (desc.count == 0) + continue; + desc.error = 0; + do_shmem_file_read(filp, ppos, &desc, file_read_actor); + retval += desc.written; + if (desc.error) { + retval = retval ?: desc.error; + break; + } + if (desc.count > 0) + break; + } + return retval; } static int shmem_statfs(struct dentry *dentry, struct kstatfs *buf) @@ -2369,8 +2381,9 @@ static const struct file_operations shme .mmap = shmem_mmap, #ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS .llseek = generic_file_llseek, - .read = shmem_file_read, + .read = do_sync_read, .write = do_sync_write, + .aio_read = shmem_file_aio_read, .aio_write = generic_file_aio_write, .fsync = simple_sync_file, .splice_read = generic_file_splice_read, _