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Commit bd1a68b5 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Jens Axboe
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vmsplice: relax alignement requirements for SPLICE_F_GIFT



It seems there is no fundamental reason to limit vmsplice()
SPLICE_F_GIFT to page aligned chunks.

All helpers are prepared to cope with offsets in page.

This limitation makes vmsplice() API very impractical in the zero-copy
land.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent a637120e
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