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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/filemap.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 603b562d69b1..f87e2ad8cff1 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2871,9 +2871,24 @@ size_t splice_folio_into_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, return spliced; } -/* - * Splice folios from the pagecache of a buffered (ie. non-O_DIRECT) file into - * a pipe. +/** + * filemap_splice_read - Splice data from a file's pagecache into a pipe + * @in: The file to read from + * @ppos: Pointer to the file position to read from + * @pipe: The pipe to splice into + * @len: The amount to splice + * @flags: The SPLICE_F_* flags + * + * This function gets folios from a file's pagecache and splices them into the + * pipe. Readahead will be called as necessary to fill more folios. This may + * be used for blockdevs also. + * + * Return: On success, the number of bytes read will be returned and *@ppos + * will be updated if appropriate; 0 will be returned if there is no more data + * to be read; -EAGAIN will be returned if the pipe had no space, and some + * other negative error code will be returned on error. A short read may occur + * if the pipe has insufficient space, we reach the end of the data or we hit a + * hole. */ ssize_t filemap_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, |