teach sendfile(2) to handle send-to-pipe directly

no point going through the intermediate pipe

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 77c50befbfbe..cff1f30cfefb 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct mount;
 struct shrink_control;
 struct fs_context;
 struct user_namespace;
+struct pipe_inode_info;
 
 /*
  * block_dev.c
@@ -193,3 +194,11 @@ int sb_init_dio_done_wq(struct super_block *sb);
  */
 int do_statx(int dfd, const char __user *filename, unsigned flags,
 	     unsigned int mask, struct statx __user *buffer);
+
+/*
+ * fs/splice.c:
+ */
+long splice_file_to_pipe(struct file *in,
+			 struct pipe_inode_info *opipe,
+			 loff_t *offset,
+			 size_t len, unsigned int flags);