splice: add SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flag

It doesn't make the splice itself necessarily nonblocking (because the
actual file descriptors that are spliced from/to may block unless they
have the O_NONBLOCK flag set), but it makes the splice pipe operations
nonblocking.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
index 75c7f55023ab..d218fc729319 100644
--- a/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+++ b/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
@@ -60,5 +60,8 @@ void free_pipe_info(struct inode* inode);
  * add the splice flags here.
  */
 #define SPLICE_F_MOVE   (0x01)  /* move pages instead of copying */
+#define SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK (0x02) /* don't block on the pipe splicing (but */
+                                 /* we may still block on the fd we splice */
+                                 /* from/to, of course */
 
 #endif