For the splice from the trace seq buffer, just use copy_splice_read(). In the future, something better can probably be done by gifting pages from seq->buf into the pipe, but that would require changing seq->buf into a vmap over an array of pages. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: linux-trace-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index ebc59781456a..c210d02fac97 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -5171,7 +5171,7 @@ static const struct file_operations tracing_fops = { .open = tracing_open, .read = seq_read, .read_iter = seq_read_iter, - .splice_read = generic_file_splice_read, + .splice_read = copy_splice_read, .write = tracing_write_stub, .llseek = tracing_lseek, .release = tracing_release,