tree 741c340866663fefd96812731d390e2e62847b1b
parent 59878d7f3e2f3bf4b32775f128c5f85fc0bdfec2
author Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com> 1475237407 +0200
committer Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com> 1485554136 -0800

ANDROID: binder: support for scatter-gather.

Previously all data passed over binder needed
to be serialized, with the exception of Binder
objects and file descriptors.

This patchs adds support for scatter-gathering raw
memory buffers into a binder transaction, avoiding
the need to first serialize them into a Parcel.

To remain backwards compatibile with existing
binder clients, it introduces two new command
ioctls for this purpose - BC_TRANSACTION_SG and
BC_REPLY_SG. These commands may only be used with
the new binder_transaction_data_sg structure,
which adds a field for the total size of the
buffers we are scatter-gathering.

Because memory buffers may contain pointers to
other buffers, we allow callers to specify
a parent buffer and an offset into it, to indicate
this is a location pointing to the buffer that
we are fixing up. The kernel will then take care
of fixing up the pointer to that buffer as well.

Change-Id: I02417f28cff14688f2e1d6fcb959438fd96566cc
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com>