Re: [PATCH v17 03/14] shmem: Implement splice-read

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:26 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Are you okay if we go with my current patch for the moment?

I  guess.

But please at least stop doing the

     get_page(buf->page);

on the zero-page (which includes using no-op .get and .put functions
in  zero_pipe_buf_ops().

Maybe we can do /dev/null some day and actually have a common case for those.

             Linus