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David Howells 4e260a8fd7 cifs: Implement splice_read to pass down ITER_BVEC not ITER_PIPE
Provide cifs_splice_read() to use a bvec rather than an pipe iterator as
the latter cannot so easily be split and advanced, which is necessary to
pass an iterator down to the bottom levels.  Upstream cifs gets around this
problem by using iov_iter_get_pages() to prefill the pipe and then passing
the list of pages down.

This is done by:

 (1) Bulk-allocate a bunch of pages to carry as much of the requested
     amount of data as possible, but without overrunning the available
     slots in the pipe and add them to an ITER_BVEC.

 (2) Synchronously call ->read_iter() to read into the buffer.

 (3) Discard any unused pages.

 (4) Load the remaining pages into the pipe in order and advance the head
     pointer.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166732028113.3186319.1793644937097301358.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # rfc
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
2023-02-20 17:25:43 -06:00
arch A single fix for x86: 2023-02-18 17:57:16 -08:00
block iov_iter: Define flags to qualify page extraction. 2023-02-20 17:25:43 -06:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-01-31 17:53:01 +09:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2022-12-14 12:31:09 -08:00
Documentation x86: 2023-02-18 11:07:32 -08:00
drivers arm64 regression fix for 6.2 2023-02-18 10:10:49 -08:00
fs cifs: Implement splice_read to pass down ITER_BVEC not ITER_PIPE 2023-02-20 17:25:43 -06:00
include iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator 2023-02-20 17:25:43 -06:00
init Kbuild fixes for v6.2 (3rd) 2023-01-21 10:56:37 -08:00
io_uring io_uring: always prep_async for drain requests 2023-01-27 06:29:29 -07:00
ipc Non-MM patches for 6.2-rc1. 2022-12-12 17:28:58 -08:00
kernel A fix for a long standing issue in the alarmtimer code: 2023-02-18 17:46:50 -08:00
lib iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator 2023-02-20 17:25:43 -06:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm splice: Export filemap/direct_splice_read() 2023-02-20 17:25:43 -06:00
net devlink: Fix netdev notifier chain corruption 2023-02-16 11:53:47 +01:00
rust rust: print: avoid evaluating arguments in pr_* macros in unsafe blocks 2023-01-16 00:54:35 +01:00
samples ftrace: Export ftrace_free_filter() to modules 2023-01-24 11:20:58 -05:00
scripts 12 hotfixes, mostly against mm/. Five of these fixes are cc:stable. 2023-02-13 14:09:20 -08:00
security apparmor: Fix regression in compat permissions for getattr 2023-02-15 11:24:38 -08:00
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usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt VFIO fixes for v6.2-rc6 2023-01-23 11:56:07 -08:00
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.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Six hotfixes. Five are cc:stable: four for MM, one for nilfs2. Also a 2023-02-17 17:51:40 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.2 2023-02-19 14:24:22 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.