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Provide a function to do splice read from a buffered file, pulling the folios out of the pagecache directly by calling filemap_get_pages() to do any required reading and then pasting the returned folios into the pipe. A helper function is provided to do the actual folio pasting and will handle multipage folios by splicing as many of the relevant subpages as will fit into the pipe. The code is loosely based on filemap_read() and might belong in mm/filemap.c with that as it needs to use filemap_get_pages(). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> cc: linux-mm@kvack.org cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Linux kernel
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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.