From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:40:08 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [PATCH] splice: add ->splice_write support for /dev/null
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc3~10^2
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ebd32fc54bd04de6b3944587f25513c0681f98e;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] splice: add ->splice_write support for /dev/null

Useful for testing.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/mem.c b/drivers/char/mem.c
index 66719f9d29..1fa9fa157c 100644
--- 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__)