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* support splice reads on seq_file based procfs files
@ 2020-10-29 10:09 Christoph Hellwig
  2020-10-29 10:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] seq_file: add seq_read_iter Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2020-10-29 10:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Al Viro
  Cc: Greg KH, Linus Torvalds, Alexey Dobriyan, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel

Hi Al,

Greg reported a problem due to the fact that Android tests use procfs
files to test splice, which stopped working with 5.10-rc1.  This series
adds read_iter support for seq_file, and uses those for all proc files
using seq_file to restore splice read support.

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2020-10-29 10:09 support splice reads on seq_file based procfs files Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 10:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] seq_file: add seq_read_iter Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 10:32   ` Greg KH
2020-10-29 10:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] proc: wire up generic_file_splice_read for iter ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 10:32   ` Greg KH
2020-10-29 10:09 ` [PATCH 3/3] proc: switch over direct seq_read method calls to seq_read_iter Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-29 10:32   ` Greg KH
2020-11-03 18:48 ` support splice reads on seq_file based procfs files Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-03 18:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-03 19:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-03 19:07       ` Linus Torvalds

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