From b580b93664f91db8cb503429030df0f1c1e53528 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:58:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE Add an O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE flag that can be passed to pipe2() to indicate that the pipe being created is going to be used for notifications. This suppresses the use of splice(), vmsplice(), tee() and sendfile() on the pipe as calling iov_iter_revert() on a pipe when a kernel notification message has been inserted into the middle of a multi-buffer splice will be messy. The flag is given the same value as O_EXCL as it seems unlikely that this flag will ever be applicable to pipes and I don't want to use up another O_* bit unnecessarily. An alternative could be to add a pipe3() system call. Signed-off-by: David Howells --- include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h b/include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h index 5f3d21e8a34b..9df72227f515 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/watch_queue.h @@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ #define _UAPI_LINUX_WATCH_QUEUE_H #include +#include + +#define O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE O_EXCL /* Parameter to pipe2() selecting notification pipe */ enum watch_notification_type { WATCH_TYPE_META = 0, /* Special record */