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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2012-04-04 11:08:51 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2012-04-20 10:20:05 +0200
commitbd1a68b59c8e3bce45fb76632c64e1e063c3962d (patch)
tree20ee27961256383e8eccb8236f901315623383f9 /fs/splice.c
parenta637120e49021d197e9578cba545bbaa459cbb51 (diff)
vmsplice: relax alignement requirements for SPLICE_F_GIFT
It seems there is no fundamental reason to limit vmsplice() SPLICE_F_GIFT to page aligned chunks. All helpers are prepared to cope with offsets in page. This limitation makes vmsplice() API very impractical in the zero-copy land. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/splice.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/splice.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 5f883de7ef3..5417aa320dc 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@ static long do_splice(struct file *in, loff_t __user *off_in,
*/
static int get_iovec_page_array(const struct iovec __user *iov,
unsigned int nr_vecs, struct page **pages,
- struct partial_page *partial, int aligned,
+ struct partial_page *partial, bool aligned,
unsigned int pipe_buffers)
{
int buffers = 0, error = 0;
@@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ static long vmsplice_to_pipe(struct file *file, const struct iovec __user *iov,
return -ENOMEM;
spd.nr_pages = get_iovec_page_array(iov, nr_segs, spd.pages,
- spd.partial, flags & SPLICE_F_GIFT,
+ spd.partial, false,
pipe->buffers);
if (spd.nr_pages <= 0)
ret = spd.nr_pages;