splice: implement default splice_read method

If f_op->splice_read() is not implemented, fall back to a plain read.
Use vfs_readv() to read into previously allocated pages.

This will allow splice and functions using splice, such as the loop
device, to work on all filesystems.  This includes "direct_io" files
in fuse which bypass the page cache.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 5bed436f4353..d926c2bea166 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2204,6 +2204,8 @@ extern int generic_segment_checks(const struct iovec *iov,
 /* fs/splice.c */
 extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *, loff_t *,
                 struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
+extern ssize_t default_file_splice_read(struct file *, loff_t *,
+                struct pipe_inode_info *, size_t, unsigned int);
 extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *,
                 struct file *, loff_t *, size_t, unsigned int);
 extern ssize_t generic_splice_sendpage(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,