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/*
* Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009
* The President and Fellows of Harvard College.
*
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*
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*/
#ifndef _KERN_IOVEC_H_
#define _KERN_IOVEC_H_
/*
* iovec structure, used in the readv/writev scatter/gather I/O calls,
* and within the kernel for keeping track of blocks of data for I/O.
*/
struct iovec {
/*
* For maximum type safety, when in the kernel, distinguish
* user pointers from kernel pointers.
*
* (A pointer is a user pointer if it *came* from userspace,
* not necessarily if it *points* to userspace. If a system
* call passes 0xdeadbeef, it points to the kernel, but it's
* still a user pointer.)
*
* In userspace, there are only user pointers; also, the name
* iov_base is defined by POSIX.
*
* Note that to work properly (without extra unwanted fiddling
* around) this scheme requires that void* and userptr_t have
* the same machine representation. Machines where this isn't
* true are theoretically possible under the C standard, but
* do not exist in practice.
*/
#ifdef _KERNEL
union {
userptr_t iov_ubase; /* user-supplied pointer */
void *iov_kbase; /* kernel-supplied pointer */
};
#else
void *iov_base; /* user-supplied pointer */
#endif
size_t iov_len; /* Length of data */
};
#endif /* _KERN_IOVEC_H_ */