[PATCH 06/12] new helper: add_to_pipe()

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 6:00 AM, Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> single-buffer analogue of splice_to_pipe(); vmsplice_to_pipe() switched
> to that, leaving splice_to_pipe() only for ->splice_read() instances
> (and that only until they are converted as well).
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> ---
>  fs/splice.c            | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  include/linux/splice.h |   2 +
>  2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>

[...]

> @@ -1523,26 +1553,13 @@ static long vmsplice_to_pipe(struct file *file, const struct iovec __user *uiov,
>         if (ret < 0)
>                 return ret;
>
> -       if (splice_grow_spd(pipe, &spd)) {
> -               kfree(iov);
> -               return -ENOMEM;
> -       }
> -
>         pipe_lock(pipe);
>         ret = wait_for_space(pipe, flags);
> -       if (!ret) {
> -               spd.nr_pages = get_iovec_page_array(&from, spd.pages,
> -                                                   spd.partial,
> -                                                   spd.nr_pages_max);
> -               if (spd.nr_pages <= 0)
> -                       ret = spd.nr_pages;
> -               else
> -                       ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
> -               pipe_unlock(pipe);
> -               if (ret > 0)
> -                       wakeup_pipe_readers(pipe);
> -       }
> -       splice_shrink_spd(&spd);
> +       if (!ret)
> +               ret = iter_to_pipe(&from, pipe, buf_flag);
> +       pipe_unlock(pipe);

Ah, here it is :)

Thanks,
Miklos