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      1 #ifndef __LINUX_UIO_H
      2 #define __LINUX_UIO_H
      3 
      4 #include <linux/types.h>
      5 
      6 /*
      7  *	Berkeley style UIO structures	-	Alan Cox 1994.
      8  *
      9  *		This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
     10  *		modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
     11  *		as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
     12  *		2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
     13  */
     14 
     15 struct iovec
     16 {
     17 	void *iov_base;	/* BSD uses caddr_t (1003.1g requires void *) */
     18 	__kernel_size_t iov_len; /* Must be size_t (1003.1g) */
     19 };
     20 
     21 
     22 /*
     23  *	UIO_MAXIOV shall be at least 16 1003.1g (5.4.1.1)
     24  */
     25 
     26 #define UIO_FASTIOV	8
     27 #define UIO_MAXIOV	1024
     28 
     29 /*
     30  * Total number of bytes covered by an iovec.
     31  *
     32  * NOTE that it is not safe to use this function until all the iovec's
     33  * segment lengths have been validated.  Because the individual lengths can
     34  * overflow a size_t when added together.
     35  */
     36 static __inline__ size_t iov_length(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs)
     37 {
     38 	unsigned long seg;
     39 	size_t ret = 0;
     40 
     41 	for (seg = 0; seg < nr_segs; seg++)
     42 		ret += iov[seg].iov_len;
     43 	return ret;
     44 }
     45 
     46 unsigned long iov_shorten(struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t to);
     47 
     48 #endif
     49