[PATCH 1/3] splice: don't assume regular pages in splice_to_pipe()

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 - 03:07:57 EST


Allow caller to pass in a release function, there might be
other resources that need releasing as well. Needed for
network receive.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/splice.c | 9 ++++++++-
include/linux/splice.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index f24e367..25ec9c8 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -247,11 +247,16 @@ ssize_t splice_to_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
}

while (page_nr < spd->nr_pages)
- page_cache_release(spd->pages[page_nr++]);
+ spd->spd_release(spd, page_nr++);

return ret;
}

+static void spd_release_page(struct splice_pipe_desc *spd, unsigned int i)
+{
+ page_cache_release(spd->pages[i]);
+}
+
static int
__generic_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, size_t len,
@@ -270,6 +275,7 @@ __generic_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
.partial = partial,
.flags = flags,
.ops = &page_cache_pipe_buf_ops,
+ .spd_release = spd_release_page,
};

index = *ppos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
@@ -1442,6 +1448,7 @@ static long vmsplice_to_pipe(struct file *file, const struct iovec __user *iov,
.partial = partial,
.flags = flags,
.ops = &user_page_pipe_buf_ops,
+ .spd_release = spd_release_page,
};

pipe = pipe_info(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode);
diff --git a/include/linux/splice.h b/include/linux/splice.h
index 1a1182b..04c1068 100644
--- a/include/linux/splice.h
+++ b/include/linux/splice.h
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct splice_pipe_desc {
int nr_pages; /* number of pages in map */
unsigned int flags; /* splice flags */
const struct pipe_buf_operations *ops;/* ops associated with output pipe */
+ void (*spd_release)(struct splice_pipe_desc *, unsigned int);
};

typedef int (splice_actor)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *,
--
1.5.2.1.174.gcd03

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