Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block

* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] splice: add ->splice_write support for /dev/null [PATCH] splice: rearrange moving to/from pipe helpers [PATCH] Add support for the sys_vmsplice syscall [PATCH] splice: fix offset problems [PATCH] splice: fix min() warning
git-mirror · Apr 26, 2006 · 7b97ebf · 7b97ebf
2 parents 07db869 + 1ebd32f
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diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -1610,5 +1610,6 @@ sys_call_table:
 	data8 sys_get_robust_list
 	data8 sys_sync_file_range		// 1300
 	data8 sys_tee
+	data8 sys_vmsplice
 
 	.org sys_call_table + 8*NR_syscalls	// guard against failures to increase NR_syscalls
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
@@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ COMPAT_SYS(ppoll)
 SYSCALL(unshare)
 SYSCALL(splice)
 SYSCALL(tee)
+SYSCALL(vmsplice)
 
 /*
  * please add new calls to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_callbacks.c
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ void *spu_syscall_table[] = {
 	[__NR_unshare]			sys_unshare,
 	[__NR_splice]			sys_splice,
 	[__NR_tee]			sys_tee,
+	[__NR_vmsplice]			sys_vmsplice,
 };
 
 long spu_sys_callback(struct spu_syscall_block *s)

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/crash_dump.h>
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/bootmem.h>
+#include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -578,6 +579,18 @@ static ssize_t write_null(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
 	return count;
 }
 
+static int pipe_to_null(struct pipe_inode_info *info, struct pipe_buffer *buf,
+			struct splice_desc *sd)
+{
+	return sd->len;
+}
+
+static ssize_t splice_write_null(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,struct file *out,
+				 loff_t *ppos, size_t len, unsigned int flags)
+{
+	return splice_from_pipe(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags, pipe_to_null);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 /*
  * For fun, we are using the MMU for this.
@@ -785,6 +798,7 @@ static struct file_operations null_fops = {
 	.llseek		= null_lseek,
 	.read		= read_null,
 	.write		= write_null,
+	.splice_write	= splice_write_null,
 };
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_ISA) || !defined(__mc68000__)