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1 #ifndef __LINUX_UIO_H
2 #define __LINUX_UIO_H
4 #include <linux/compiler.h>
5 #include <linux/types.h>
7 /*
8 * Berkeley style UIO structures - Alan Cox 1994.
10 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
11 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
12 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
13 * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
17 /* A word of warning: Our uio structure will clash with the C library one (which is now obsolete). Remove the C
18 library one from sys/uio.h if you have a very old library set */
20 struct iovec
22 void __user *iov_base; /* BSD uses caddr_t (1003.1g requires void *) */
23 __kernel_size_t iov_len; /* Must be size_t (1003.1g) */
26 #ifdef __KERNEL__
28 struct kvec {
29 void *iov_base; /* and that should *never* hold a userland pointer */
30 size_t iov_len;
33 #endif
36 * UIO_MAXIOV shall be at least 16 1003.1g (5.4.1.1)
39 #define UIO_FASTIOV 8
40 #define UIO_MAXIOV 1024
41 #if 0
42 #define UIO_MAXIOV 16 /* Maximum iovec's in one operation
43 16 matches BSD */
44 /* Beg pardon: BSD has 1024 --ANK */
45 #endif
48 * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec.
50 * NOTE that it is not safe to use this function until all the iovec's
51 * segment lengths have been validated. Because the individual lengths can
52 * overflow a size_t when added together.
54 static inline size_t iov_length(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
56 unsigned long seg;
57 size_t ret = 0;
59 for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++)
60 ret += iov[seg].iov_len;
61 return ret;
64 unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to);
66 #endif