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Message-Id: <200609290135.33683.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:35:33 +0200
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/3] swsusp: Add ioctl for swap files support
On Friday, 29 September 2006 01:03, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:13:38 +0200
> > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> >
> > > To be able to use swap files as suspend storage from the userland suspend
> > > tools we need an additional ioctl() that will allow us to provide the kernel
> > > with both the swap header's offset and the identification of the resume
> > > partition.
> > >
> > > The new ioctl() should be regarded as a replacement for the
> > > SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE ioctl() that from now on will be considered as
> > > obsolete, but has to stay for backwards compatibility of the interface.
> > >
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * This structure is used to pass the values needed for the identification
> > > + * of the resume swap area from a user space to the kernel via the
> > > + * SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl
> > > + */
> > > +struct resume_swap_area {
> > > + u_int16_t dev;
> > > + loff_t offset;
> > > +} __attribute__((packed));
>
> >
> > hmm. Asking the compiler to pack 16-bit and 64-bit quantities in this
> > manner is a bit risky. I guess it'll do the right thing, consistently,
> > across all compiler versions and vendors and 32-bit-on-64-bit-kernel, etc.
> >
> > But from a defensiveness/paranoia POV it'd be better to use a u32 here, I
> > suspect. (Will access to that loff_t cause an alignment trap on ia64? Any
> > other CPUs? Dunno).
>
> Perhaps just loff_t offset; u32 dev; ? If 64-bit variable is first, we
> should avoid most problems, no?
Done. Updated patch follows.
Greetings,
Rafael
---
To be able to use swap files as suspend storage from the userland suspend
tools we need an additional ioctl() that will allow us to provide the kernel
with both the swap header's offset and the identification of the resume
partition.
The new ioctl() should be regarded as a replacement for the
SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE ioctl() that from now on will be considered as
obsolete, but has to stay for backwards compatibility of the interface.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
---
kernel/power/power.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
kernel/power/user.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.18-mm2/kernel/power/power.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-mm2.orig/kernel/power/power.h
+++ linux-2.6.18-mm2/kernel/power/power.h
@@ -119,7 +119,18 @@ extern int snapshot_image_loaded(struct
#define SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE _IOW(SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAGIC, 10, unsigned int)
#define SNAPSHOT_S2RAM _IO(SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAGIC, 11)
#define SNAPSHOT_PMOPS _IOW(SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAGIC, 12, unsigned int)
-#define SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAXNR 12
+#define SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA _IOW(SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAGIC, 13, void *)
+#define SNAPSHOT_IOC_MAXNR 13
+
+/*
+ * This structure is used to pass the values needed for the identification
+ * of the resume swap area from a user space to the kernel via the
+ * SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl
+ */
+struct resume_swap_area {
+ loff_t offset;
+ u_int32_t dev;
+} __attribute__((packed));
#define PMOPS_PREPARE 1
#define PMOPS_ENTER 2
Index: linux-2.6.18-mm2/kernel/power/user.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-mm2.orig/kernel/power/user.c
+++ linux-2.6.18-mm2/kernel/power/user.c
@@ -343,6 +343,37 @@ OutS3:
}
break;
+ case SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA:
+ if (data->bitmap) {
+ error = -EPERM;
+ } else {
+ struct resume_swap_area swap_area;
+ dev_t swdev;
+
+ error = copy_from_user(&swap_area, (void __user *)arg,
+ sizeof(struct resume_swap_area));
+ if (error) {
+ error = -EFAULT;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * User space encodes device types as two-byte values,
+ * so we need to recode them
+ */
+ swdev = old_decode_dev(swap_area.dev);
+ if (swdev) {
+ offset = swap_area.offset;
+ data->swap = swap_type_of(swdev, offset);
+ if (data->swap < 0)
+ error = -ENODEV;
+ } else {
+ data->swap = -1;
+ error = -EINVAL;
+ }
+ }
+ break;
+
default:
error = -ENOTTY;
-
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