[PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction

separate out the 'internal pipe object' abstraction, and make it
usable to splice. This cleans up and fixes several aspects of the
internal splice APIs and the pipe code:

 - pipes: the allocation and freeing of pipe_inode_info is now more symmetric
   and more streamlined with existing kernel practices.

 - splice: small micro-optimization: less pointer dereferencing in splice
   methods

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Update XFS for the ->splice_read/->splice_write changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

4 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
index ae4c4754ed31..269721af02f3 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ xfs_file_sendfile_invis(
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_splice_read(
 	struct file		*infilp,
-	struct inode		*pipe,
+	struct pipe_inode_info	*pipe,
 	size_t			len,
 	unsigned int		flags)
 {
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ xfs_file_splice_read(
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_splice_read_invis(
 	struct file		*infilp,
-	struct inode		*pipe,
+	struct pipe_inode_info	*pipe,
 	size_t			len,
 	unsigned int		flags)
 {
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ xfs_file_splice_read_invis(
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_splice_write(
-	struct inode		*pipe,
+	struct pipe_inode_info	*pipe,
 	struct file		*outfilp,
 	size_t			len,
 	unsigned int		flags)
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ xfs_file_splice_write(
 
 STATIC ssize_t
 xfs_file_splice_write_invis(
-	struct inode		*pipe,
+	struct pipe_inode_info	*pipe,
 	struct file		*outfilp,
 	size_t			len,
 	unsigned int		flags)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c
index 90cd314acbaa..74a52937f208 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.c
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ ssize_t
 xfs_splice_read(
 	bhv_desc_t		*bdp,
 	struct file		*infilp,
-	struct inode		*pipe,
+	struct pipe_inode_info	*pipe,
 	size_t			count,
 	int			flags,
 	int			ioflags,
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ xfs_splice_read(
 ssize_t
 xfs_splice_write(
 	bhv_desc_t		*bdp,
-	struct inode		*pipe,
+	struct pipe_inode_info	*pipe,
 	struct file		*outfilp,
 	size_t			count,
 	int			flags,
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.h
index eaa5659713fb..55c689a86ad2 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.h
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ extern ssize_t xfs_sendfile(struct bhv_desc *, struct file *,
 				loff_t *, int, size_t, read_actor_t,
 				void *, struct cred *);
 extern ssize_t xfs_splice_read(struct bhv_desc *, struct file *,
-				struct inode *, size_t, int, int,
+				struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, int, int,
 				struct cred *);
-extern ssize_t xfs_splice_write(struct bhv_desc *, struct inode *,
+extern ssize_t xfs_splice_write(struct bhv_desc *, struct pipe_inode_info *,
 				struct file *, size_t, int, int,
 				struct cred *);
 
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.h b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.h
index 6f1c79a28f8b..88b09f186289 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_vnode.h
@@ -174,9 +174,9 @@ typedef ssize_t (*vop_sendfile_t)(bhv_desc_t *, struct file *,
 				loff_t *, int, size_t, read_actor_t,
 				void *, struct cred *);
 typedef ssize_t (*vop_splice_read_t)(bhv_desc_t *, struct file *,
-				struct inode *, size_t, int, int,
+				struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, int, int,
 				struct cred *);
-typedef ssize_t (*vop_splice_write_t)(bhv_desc_t *, struct inode *,
+typedef ssize_t (*vop_splice_write_t)(bhv_desc_t *, struct pipe_inode_info *,
 				struct file *, size_t, int, int,
 				struct cred *);
 typedef int	(*vop_ioctl_t)(bhv_desc_t *, struct inode *, struct file *,