Hi Jens, Al, Christoph, Here are patches to make some changes that Christoph requested[1] to the new generic file splice functions that I implemented[2]. Apart from one functional change, they just altering the styling and move one of the functions to a different file: (1) Rename the main functions: generic_file_buffered_splice_read() -> filemap_splice_read() generic_file_direct_splice_read() -> direct_splice_read() (2) Abstract out the calculation of the location of the head pipe buffer into a helper function in linux/pipe_fs_i.h. (3) Use init_sync_kiocb() in filemap_splice_read(). This is where the functional change is. Some kiocb fields are then filled in where they were set to 0 before, including setting ki_flags from f_iocb_flags. (4) Move filemap_splice_read() to mm/filemap.c. filemap_get_pages() can then be made static again. (5) Fix splice-read for a number of filesystems that don't provide a ->read_folio() op and for which filemap_get_pages() cannot be used. I've pushed the patches here also: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=iov-extract-3 I've also updated worked the changes into the commits on my iov-extract branch if that would be preferable, though that means Jens would need to update his for-6.3/iov-extract again. David Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y+n0n2UE8BQa/OwW@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207171305.3716974-1-dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx/ [2] Changes ======= ver #3) - Fix filesystems/drivers that don't have ->read_folio(). ver #2) - Don't attempt to filter IOCB_* flags in filemap_splice_read(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230213134619.2198965-1-dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx/ # v1 David Howells (5): splice: Rename new splice functions splice: Provide pipe_head_buf() helper splice: Use init_sync_kiocb() in filemap_splice_read() splice: Move filemap_read_splice() to mm/filemap.c shmem, overlayfs, coda, tty, proc, kernfs, random: Fix splice-read drivers/char/random.c | 4 +- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 4 +- fs/coda/file.c | 36 +++++++++- fs/kernfs/file.c | 2 +- fs/overlayfs/file.c | 36 +++++++++- fs/proc/inode.c | 4 +- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 2 +- fs/proc_namespace.c | 6 +- fs/splice.c | 146 ++------------------------------------ include/linux/fs.h | 6 ++ include/linux/pagemap.h | 2 - include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h | 20 ++++++ mm/filemap.c | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- mm/internal.h | 6 ++ mm/shmem.c | 124 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 15 files changed, 373 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)