vmsplice: relax alignement requirements for SPLICE_F_GIFT
It seems there is no fundamental reason to limit vmsplice()
SPLICE_F_GIFT to page aligned chunks.
All helpers are prepared to cope with offsets in page.
This limitation makes vmsplice() API very impractical in the zero-copy
land.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 5f883de..5417aa3 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1385,7 +1385,7 @@
*/
static int get_iovec_page_array(const struct iovec __user *iov,
unsigned int nr_vecs, struct page **pages,
- struct partial_page *partial, int aligned,
+ struct partial_page *partial, bool aligned,
unsigned int pipe_buffers)
{
int buffers = 0, error = 0;
@@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@
return -ENOMEM;
spd.nr_pages = get_iovec_page_array(iov, nr_segs, spd.pages,
- spd.partial, flags & SPLICE_F_GIFT,
+ spd.partial, false,
pipe->buffers);
if (spd.nr_pages <= 0)
ret = spd.nr_pages;
