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Commit 92b6cc5d authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells
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netfs: Add iov_iters to (sub)requests to describe various buffers



Add three iov_iter structs:

 (1) Add an iov_iter (->iter) to the I/O request to describe the
     unencrypted-side buffer.

 (2) Add an iov_iter (->io_iter) to the I/O request to describe the
     encrypted-side I/O buffer.  This may be a different size to the buffer
     in (1).

 (3) Add an iov_iter (->io_iter) to the I/O subrequest to describe the part
     of the I/O buffer for that subrequest.

This will allow future patches to point to a bounce buffer instead for
purposes of handling oversize writes, decryption (where we want to save the
encrypted data to the cache) and decompression.

These iov_iters persist for the lifetime of the (sub)request, and so can be
accessed multiple times without worrying about them being deallocated upon
return to the caller.

The network filesystem must appropriately advance the iterator before
terminating the request.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
parent 46ed60dc
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