Re: support splice reads on seq_file based procfs files

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Nov 03 2020 - 14:07:52 EST


On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:02 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> > IOW, I'd start with just cpuinfo_proc_ops, proc_seq_ops,
> > proc_single_ops, and stat_proc_ops.
>
> I think Greg reported another test case hitting /proc/version

Yeah, that would be covered by that proc_single_ops case.

Those four cases should really handle all of the normal /proc seq ops.
Anything else is going to be something very special.

Linus