iter_file_splice_write() - a ->splice_write() instance that gathers the
pipe buffers, builds a bio_vec-based iov_iter covering those and feeds
it to ->write_iter().  A bunch of simple cases coverted to that...

[AV: fixed the braino spotted by Cyrill]
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New variant of iov_iter - ITER_BVEC in iter->type, backed with
bio_vec array instead of iovec one.  Primitives taught to deal
with such beasts, __swap_write() switched to using that kind
of iov_iter.

Note that bio_vec is just a <page, offset, length> triple - there's
nothing block-specific about it.  I've left the definition where it
was, but took it from under ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK.

Next target: ->splice_write()...
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if we'd ended up in the end of a segment, jump to the
beginning of the next one (iov_offset = 0, iov++),
rather than having the next primitive deal with that.

Ought to be folded back...
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no callers left
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* switch to ->read_iter/->write_iter
* keep a pointer to iov_iter instead of iov/nr_segs
* do not modify iovecs; use iov_iter_truncate()/iov_iter_advance() and
a new primitive - iov_iter_reexpand() (expand previously truncated
iterator) istead.
* (racy) check for lustre VMAs intersecting with iovecs kept for now as
for_each_iov() loop.
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all needed primitives are there...
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parallel to copy_page_to_iter().  pipe_write() switched to it (and became
->write_iter()).
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all users converted to __generic_file_write_iter() now
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unfortunately, Ted's changes to ext4_file_write() are *still* an
incomplete fix - playing with rlimits can let you smuggle an
unaligned request past the checks.  So there almost certainly
will be more merge PITA around that place...

[fix from Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> folded]
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From ext4.git#dev, needed for switch of ext4 to ->write_iter() ;-/

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tracepoints are evil, exhibit #6969...
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Beginning to introduce those.  Just the callers for now, and it's
clumsier than it'll eventually become; once we finish converting
aio_read and aio_write instances, the things will get nicer.

For now, these guys are in parallel to ->aio_read() and ->aio_write();
they take iocb and iov_iter, with everything in iov_iter already
validated.  File offset is passed in iocb->ki_pos, iov/nr_segs -
in iov_iter.

Main concerns in that series are stack footprint and ability to
split the damn thing cleanly.

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Since we are about to introduce new methods (read_iter/write_iter), the
tests in a bunch of places would have to grow inconveniently.  Check
once (at open() time) and store results in ->f_mode as FMODE_CAN_READ
and FMODE_CAN_WRITE resp.  It might end up being a temporary measure -
once everything switches from ->aio_{read,write} to ->{read,write}_iter
it might make sense to return to open-coded checks.  We'll see...
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pos is redundant (it's iocb->ki_pos), and iov/nr_segs/count are taken
care of by lifting iov_iter into the caller.
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Now It Can Be Done(tm) - we don't need to do iov_shorten() in
generic_file_direct_write() anymore, now that all ->direct_IO()
instances are converted to proper iov_iter methods and honour
iter->count and iter->iov_offset properly.

Get rid of count/ocount arguments of generic_file_direct_write(),
while we are at it.
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