rename qemu_sendv to iov_send, change proto and move declarations to iov.h

Rename arguments and use size_t for sizes instead of int,
from
 int
 qemu_sendv(int sockfd, struct iovec *iov,
            int len, int iov_offset)
to
 ssize_t
 iov_send(int sockfd, struct iovec *iov,
          size_t offset, size_t bytes)

The main motivation was to make it clear that length
and offset are in _bytes_, not in iov elements: it was
very confusing before, because all standard functions
which deals with iovecs expects number of iovs, not
bytes, even the fact that struct iovec has iov_len and
iov_ prefix does not help.  With "bytes" and "offset",
especially since they're now size_t, it is much more
explicit.  Also change the return type to be ssize_t
instead of int.

This also changes it to match other iov-related functons,
but not _quite_: there's still no argument indicating
where iovec ends, ie, no iov_cnt parameter as used
in iov_size() and friends.  If will be added in subsequent
patch/rewrite.

All callers of qemu_sendv() and qemu_recvv() and
related, like qemu_co_sendv() and qemu_co_recvv(),
were checked to verify that it is safe to use unsigned
datatype instead of int.

Note that the order of arguments is changed to: offset
and bytes (len and iov_offset) are swapped with each
other.  This is to make them consistent with very similar
functions from qemu_iovec family, where offset always
follows qiov, to mean the place in it to start from.

Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/iov.h b/iov.h
index 19ee3b3acd..5aa2f455de 100644
--- a/iov.h
+++ b/iov.h
@@ -54,6 +54,24 @@ size_t iov_to_buf(const struct iovec *iov, const unsigned int iov_cnt,
 size_t iov_memset(const struct iovec *iov, const unsigned int iov_cnt,
                   size_t offset, int fillc, size_t bytes);
 
+/*
+ * Send/recv data from/to iovec buffers directly
+ *
+ * `offset' bytes in the beginning of iovec buffer are skipped and
+ * next `bytes' bytes are used, which must be within data of iovec.
+ *
+ *   r = iov_send(sockfd, iov, offset, bytes);
+ *
+ * is logically equivalent to
+ *
+ *   char *buf = malloc(bytes);
+ *   iov_to_buf(iov, iovcnt, offset, buf, bytes);
+ *   r = send(sockfd, buf, bytes, 0);
+ *   free(buf);
+ */
+ssize_t iov_recv(int sockfd, struct iovec *iov, size_t offset, size_t bytes);
+ssize_t iov_send(int sockfd, struct iovec *iov, size_t offset, size_t bytes);
+
 /**
  * Produce a text hexdump of iovec `iov' with `iov_cnt' number of elements
  * in file `fp', prefixing each line with `prefix' and processing not more