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Certain NFS results (eg. READLINK) might expect a data payload that is not an exact multiple of 4 bytes. In this case, XDR encoding is required to pad that payload so its length on the wire is a multiple of 4 bytes. The constants that define the maximum size of each NFS result do not appear to account for this extra word. In each case where the data payload is to be received into pages: - 1 word is added to the size of the receive buffer allocated by call_allocate - rpc_inline_rcv_pages subtracts 1 word from @hdrsize so that the extra buffer space falls into the rcv_buf's tail iovec - If buf->pagelen is word-aligned, an XDR pad is not needed and is thus removed from the tail Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.