[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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

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 *);