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authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>2013-03-01 22:45:49 +0000
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2013-03-01 22:45:49 +0000
commit02cde50b7ea74557d32ff778c73809322445ccd2 (patch)
tree5021be59504bc5dc3e4fb247debcbb9a383b0dab /include/uapi
parente2914cc26bbca67fd30fff02c6777e8477fc8a6a (diff)
downloadlinux-02cde50b7ea74557d32ff778c73809322445ccd2.tar.gz
dm ioctl: optimize functions without variable params
Device-mapper ioctls receive and send data in a buffer supplied
by userspace.  The buffer has two parts.  The first part contains
a 'struct dm_ioctl' and has a fixed size.  The second part depends
on the ioctl and has a variable size.

This patch recognises the specific ioctls that do not use the variable
part of the buffer and skips allocating memory for it.

In particular, when a device is suspended and a resume ioctl is sent,
this now avoid memory allocation completely.

The variable "struct dm_ioctl tmp" is moved from the function
copy_params to its caller ctl_ioctl and renamed to param_kernel.
It is used directly when the ioctl function doesn't need any arguments.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h
index 539b179b349c..b8a6bddf0727 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/dm-ioctl.h
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ enum {
 #define DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY	_IOWR(DM_IOCTL, DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY_CMD, struct dm_ioctl)
 
 #define DM_VERSION_MAJOR	4
-#define DM_VERSION_MINOR	23
-#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL	1
-#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA	"-ioctl (2012-12-18)"
+#define DM_VERSION_MINOR	24
+#define DM_VERSION_PATCHLEVEL	0
+#define DM_VERSION_EXTRA	"-ioctl (2013-01-15)"
 
 /* Status bits */
 #define DM_READONLY_FLAG	(1 << 0) /* In/Out */