device-mapper v4 ioctl interface patchset

Joe Thornber (thornber@sistina.com)
Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:57:39 +0100


Linus,

Please merge.

These 2 patches implement the new ioctl interface for device-mapper.
This new interface is selectable with a config option, people can
continue to use the v1 interface if they wish.

The main issues that v4 addresses are:

i) ioctl structure size issues on different architectures.

ii) tables can now be preloaded to avoid having to allocate memory
while devices are suspended.

iii) Fix a userland race condition associated with the 'wait for
event' ioctl.

- Joe
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