Re: support splice reads on seq_file based procfs files v2

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Nov 04 2020 - 12:54:18 EST


On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 12:29 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Greg reported a problem due to the fact that Android tests use procfs
> files to test splice, which stopped working with 5.10-rc1. This series
> adds read_iter support for seq_file, and uses those for various seq_files
> in procfs to restore splice read support.

Ack.

Al, do you want me to take these directly - we'll need this to avoid
the regression in 5.10? Or do you have other things pending and I'll
see them in a pull request.

Linus