iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY

Add an iterator, ITER_XARRAY, that walks through a set of pages attached to
an xarray, starting at a given page and offset and walking for the
specified amount of bytes.  The iterator supports transparent huge pages.

The iterate_xarray() macro calls the helper function with rcu_access()
helped.  I think that this is only a problem for iov_iter_for_each_range()
- and that returns an error for ITER_XARRAY (also, this function does not
appear to be called).

The caller must guarantee that the pages are all present and they must be
locked using PG_locked, PG_writeback or PG_fscache to prevent them from
going away or being migrated whilst they're being accessed.

This is useful for copying data from socket buffers to inodes in network
filesystems and for transferring data between those inodes and the cache
using direct I/O.

Whilst it is true that ITER_BVEC could be used instead, that would require
a bio_vec array to be allocated to refer to all the pages - which should be
redundant if inode->i_pages also points to all these pages.

Note that older versions of this patch implemented an ITER_MAPPING instead,
which was almost the same.

Changes:
v7:
 - Rename iter_xarray_copy_pages() to iter_xarray_populate_pages()[1].

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
cc: v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3577430.1579705075@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/158861205740.340223.16592990225607814022.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159465785214.1376674.6062549291411362531.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160588477334.3465195.3608963255682568730.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161118129703.1232039.17141248432017826976.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161161026313.2537118.14676007075365418649.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161340386671.1303470.10752208972482479840.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161539527815.286939.14607323792547049341.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161653786033.2770958.14154191921867463240.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789064740.6155.11932541175173658065.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/27c369a8f42bb8a617672b2dc0126a5c6df5a050.camel@kernel.org [1]

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 27ff8eb786dc..5f5ffc45d4aa 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <uapi/linux/uio.h>
 
 struct page;
+struct address_space;
 struct pipe_inode_info;
 
 struct kvec {
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ enum iter_type {
 	ITER_BVEC = 16,
 	ITER_PIPE = 32,
 	ITER_DISCARD = 64,
+	ITER_XARRAY = 128,
 };
 
 struct iov_iter {
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ struct iov_iter {
 		const struct iovec *iov;
 		const struct kvec *kvec;
 		const struct bio_vec *bvec;
+		struct xarray *xarray;
 		struct pipe_inode_info *pipe;
 	};
 	union {
@@ -47,6 +50,7 @@ struct iov_iter {
 			unsigned int head;
 			unsigned int start_head;
 		};
+		loff_t xarray_start;
 	};
 };
 
@@ -80,6 +84,11 @@ static inline bool iov_iter_is_discard(const struct iov_iter *i)
 	return iov_iter_type(i) == ITER_DISCARD;
 }
 
+static inline bool iov_iter_is_xarray(const struct iov_iter *i)
+{
+	return iov_iter_type(i) == ITER_XARRAY;
+}
+
 static inline unsigned char iov_iter_rw(const struct iov_iter *i)
 {
 	return i->type & (READ | WRITE);
@@ -221,6 +230,8 @@ void iov_iter_bvec(struct iov_iter *i, unsigned int direction, const struct bio_
 void iov_iter_pipe(struct iov_iter *i, unsigned int direction, struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
 			size_t count);
 void iov_iter_discard(struct iov_iter *i, unsigned int direction, size_t count);
+void iov_iter_xarray(struct iov_iter *i, unsigned int direction, struct xarray *xarray,
+		     loff_t start, size_t count);
 ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, struct page **pages,
 			size_t maxsize, unsigned maxpages, size_t *start);
 ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i, struct page ***pages,