splice: Add a func to do a splice from a buffered file without ITER_PIPE

Provide a function to do splice read from a buffered file, pulling the
folios out of the pagecache directly by calling filemap_get_pages() to do
any required reading and then pasting the returned folios into the pipe.

A helper function is provided to do the actual folio pasting and will
handle multipage folios by splicing as many of the relevant subpages as
will fit into the pipe.

The code is loosely based on filemap_read() and might belong in
mm/filemap.c with that as it needs to use filemap_get_pages().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index f9a3ff37ecd1..47c484551c59 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -186,12 +186,6 @@ static int copyin(void *to, const void __user *from, size_t n)
 	return res;
 }
 
-static inline struct pipe_buffer *pipe_buf(const struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
-					   unsigned int slot)
-{
-	return &pipe->bufs[slot & (pipe->ring_size - 1)];
-}
-
 #ifdef PIPE_PARANOIA
 static bool sanity(const struct iov_iter *i)
 {