pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications

Allow a buffer to be marked such that read() must return the entire buffer
in one go or return ENOBUFS.  Multiple buffers can be amalgamated into a
single read, but a short read will occur if the next "whole" buffer won't
fit.

This is useful for watch queue notifications to make sure we don't split a
notification across multiple reads, especially given that we need to
fabricate an overrun record under some circumstances - and that isn't in
the buffers.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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David Howells
2020-01-14 17:07:11 +00:00
parent f5b5a164f9
commit 8cfba76383
4 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions

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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#define PIPE_BUF_FLAG_ATOMIC 0x02 /* was atomically mapped */
#define PIPE_BUF_FLAG_GIFT 0x04 /* page is a gift */
#define PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET 0x08 /* read() as a packet */
#define PIPE_BUF_FLAG_WHOLE 0x10 /* read() must return entire buffer or error */
/**
* struct pipe_buffer - a linux kernel pipe buffer