[PATCH v21 07/30] splice: Make splice from an O_DIRECT fd use copy_splice_read()

[David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Make a read splice from a file descriptor that's open O_DIRECT use
copy_splice_read() to do the reading as filemap_splice_read() is unlikely
to find any pagecache to splice.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
---

Notes:
    ver #21)
     - Needs to be in vfs_splice_read(), not generic_file_splice_read().

 fs/splice.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index fe3309ffeb26..76126b1aafcb 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -907,6 +907,12 @@ long vfs_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
 
 	if (unlikely(!in->f_op->splice_read))
 		return warn_unsupported(in, "read");
+	/*
+	 * O_DIRECT doesn't deal with the pagecache, so we allocate a buffer,
+	 * copy into it and splice that into the pipe.
+	 */
+	if ((in->f_flags & O_DIRECT))
+		return copy_splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags);
 	return in->f_op->splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_splice_read);