On Sat, 20 May 2023 01:00:45 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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,
Anyway, for this change:
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
-- Steve
> .write = tracing_write_stub,
> .llseek = tracing_lseek,
> .release = tracing_release,
