From 241699cd72a8489c9446ae3910ddd243e9b9061b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:33:12 -0400 Subject: new iov_iter flavour: pipe-backed iov_iter variant for passing data into pipe. copy_to_iter() copies data into page(s) it has allocated and stuffs them into the pipe; copy_page_to_iter() stuffs there a reference to the page given to it. Both will try to coalesce if possible. iov_iter_zero() is similar to copy_to_iter(); iov_iter_get_pages() and friends will do as copy_to_iter() would have and return the pages where the data would've been copied. iov_iter_advance() will truncate everything past the spot it has advanced to. New primitive: iov_iter_pipe(), used for initializing those. pipe should be locked all along. Running out of space acts as fault would for iovec-backed ones; in other words, giving it to ->read_iter() may result in short read if the pipe overflows, or -EFAULT if it happens with nothing copied there. In other words, ->read_iter() on those acts pretty much like ->splice_read(). Moreover, all generic_file_splice_read() users, as well as many other ->splice_read() instances can be switched to that scheme - that'll happen in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/splice.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/splice.h') diff --git a/include/linux/splice.h b/include/linux/splice.h index 58b300f37534..00a21166e268 100644 --- a/include/linux/splice.h +++ b/include/linux/splice.h @@ -85,4 +85,5 @@ extern void splice_shrink_spd(struct splice_pipe_desc *); extern void spd_release_page(struct splice_pipe_desc *, unsigned int); extern const struct pipe_buf_operations page_cache_pipe_buf_ops; +extern const struct pipe_buf_operations default_pipe_buf_ops; #endif -- cgit v1.2.3