struct uio {
struct iovec *uio_iov; /* scatter/gather list */
int uio_iovcnt; /* length of scatter/gather list */
off_t uio_offset; /* offset in target object */
int uio_resid; /* remaining bytes to copy */
enum uio_seg uio_segflg; /* address space */
enum uio_rw uio_rw; /* operation */
struct thread *uio_td; /* owner */
};
int
uiomove (void *buf int howmuch struct uio *uiop);
DESCRIPTION
The function
uiomove ();
is used to handle transfer of data between buffers and I/O vectors
that might possibly also cross the user/kernel space boundary.
As a result of any
read(2),
write(2),
readv(2),
or
writev(2)
system call that is being passed to a character-device driver, the
appropriate driver
d_read
or
d_write
entry will be called with a pointer to a
Vt struct uio
being passed.
The transfer request is encoded in this structure.
The driver itself should use
uiomove ();
to get at the data in this structure.
The fields in the
Vt uio
structure are:
uio_iov
The array of I/O vectors to be processed.
In the case of scatter/gather
I/O, this will be more than one vector.
uio_iovcnt
The number of I/O vectors present.
uio_offset
The offset into the device.
uio_resid
The remaining number of bytes to process, updated after transfer.
uio_segflg
One of the following flags:
UIO_USERSPACE
The I/O vector points into a process's address space.
UIO_SYSSPACE
The I/O vector points into the kernel address space.
UIO_NOCOPY
Do not copy, already in object.
uio_rw
The direction of the desired transfer, either
UIO_READ
or
UIO_WRITE
uio_td
The pointer to a
Vt struct thread
for the associated thread; used if
uio_segflg
indicates that the transfer is to be made from/to a process's address
space.
RETURN VALUES
On success
uiomove ();
will return 0, on error it will return an appropriate errno.
ERRORS
uiomove ();
will fail and return the following error code if:
Bq Er EFAULT
The invoked
copyin(9)
or
copyout(9)
returned
Er EFAULT
EXAMPLES
The idea is that the driver maintains a private buffer for its data,
and processes the request in chunks of maximal the size of this
buffer.
Note that the buffer handling below is very simplified and
will not work (the buffer pointer is not being advanced in case of a
partial read), it is just here to demonstrate the
handling.
/* MIN() can be found there: */
#include <sys/param.h>
#define BUFSIZE 512
static char buffer[BUFSIZE];
static int data_available; /* amount of data that can be read */
static int
fooread(dev_t dev, struct uio *uio, int flag)
{
int rv, amnt;
rv = 0;
while (uio->uio_resid > 0) {
if (data_available > 0) {
amnt = MIN(uio->uio_resid, data_available);
rv = uiomove(buffer, amnt, uio);
if (rv != 0)
break;
data_available -= amnt;
} else
tsleep(...); /* wait for a better time */
}
if (rv != 0) {
/* do error cleanup here */
}
return (rv);
}