Re: [linux-next] splice call weird results

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 01:20:13PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > Hi! While been trying to run criu on linux-next (due to recent Kirill's patch related
> > to /proc/pid/clear_refs with THP enabled) I noticed that it fails dumping programs when
> > moves data from memory pages into an image file. So I wrote pretty idiotic test and
> > run it on current fedora 20 kernel and then on linux-next.
> > 
> 
> +Al. He reworked splice code in linux-next.

Thanks Kirill. Al, it looks like iter_file_splice_write no longer honor @len while
building kiocb vector but pushes as much as it can.
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