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Previously all data passed over binder needed to be serialized, with the exception of Binder objects and file descriptors. This patchs adds support for scatter-gathering raw memory buffers into a binder transaction, avoiding the need to first serialize them into a Parcel. To remain backwards compatibile with existing binder clients, it introduces two new command ioctls for this purpose - BC_TRANSACTION_SG and BC_REPLY_SG. These commands may only be used with the new binder_transaction_data_sg structure, which adds a field for the total size of the buffers we are scatter-gathering. Because memory buffers may contain pointers to other buffers, we allow callers to specify a parent buffer and an offset into it, to indicate this is a location pointing to the buffer that we are fixing up. The kernel will then take care of fixing up the pointer to that buffer as well. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com> Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Cc: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> Cc: Serban Constantinescu <serban.constantinescu@arm.com> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@google.com> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com> [jstultz: Fold in small fix from Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.