VFS: Add iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable()

simillar to iov_iter_fault_in_readable() but differs in that it is
not limited to faulting in the first iovec and instead faults in
"bytes" bytes iterating over the iovecs as necessary.

Also, instead of only faulting in the first and last page of the
range, all pages are faulted in.

This function is needed by NTFS when it does multi page file
writes.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Anton Altaparmakov
2015-03-11 10:43:31 -04:00
committed by Al Viro
parent e5b811e38a
commit 171a02032b
2 changed files with 27 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ size_t iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(struct page *page,
struct iov_iter *i, unsigned long offset, size_t bytes);
void iov_iter_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
int iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
size_t iov_iter_single_seg_count(const struct iov_iter *i);
size_t copy_page_to_iter(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t bytes,
struct iov_iter *i);