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. I've filtered out IOCB_NOWAIT as the function is supposed to be synchronous. (4) Move filemap_splice_read() to mm/filemap.c. filemap_get_pages() can then be made static again. 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] David Howells (4): 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 fs/splice.c | 146 ++------------------------------------ include/linux/pagemap.h | 2 - include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h | 20 ++++++ include/linux/splice.h | 4 ++ mm/filemap.c | 138 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 5 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)