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Commit 7980240b authored by Martijn Coenen's avatar Martijn Coenen Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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binder: Add support for scatter-gather



Previously all data passed over binder needed
to be serialized, with the exception of Binder
objects and file descriptors.

This patchs adds support for scatter-gathering raw
memory buffers into a binder transaction, avoiding
the need to first serialize them into a Parcel.

To remain backwards compatibile with existing
binder clients, it introduces two new command
ioctls for this purpose - BC_TRANSACTION_SG and
BC_REPLY_SG. These commands may only be used with
the new binder_transaction_data_sg structure,
which adds a field for the total size of the
buffers we are scatter-gathering.

Because memory buffers may contain pointers to
other buffers, we allow callers to specify
a parent buffer and an offset into it, to indicate
this is a location pointing to the buffer that
we are fixing up. The kernel will then take care
of fixing up the pointer to that buffer as well.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com>
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Cc: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>
Cc: Serban Constantinescu <serban.constantinescu@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com>
Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@google.com>
Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartijn Coenen <maco@google.com>
[jstultz: Fold in small fix from Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 4bfac80a
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