From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 760FCC41513 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231493AbjGXJpV (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:45:21 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:45766 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229778AbjGXJpT (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:45:19 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E799CE41 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2023 02:44:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1690191872; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=lcc0VwYrlT1E7PEgvFDL6PneMWy9XGB7K8wngN/IhDY=; b=B9Gh+y7Jl6Bpn0SN9KrQMzrX7EEhrnks22QK3nEpNonfg5vGZVV+fiLPClvxtb5NvO76/w 5Kf0uYE8JYdO3iOIu7b1Gp/RSXscmeIN0ZeJGV8yT8G/M2VWSNaOduxdSfcvaMOSqiBQUO jlu6NWwyimuYzjyw72mW8ZRQ08pa6xs= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (66.187.233.73 [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-474-zUuadyWlPVCQ0U_JCQHkbQ-1; Mon, 24 Jul 2023 05:44:27 -0400 X-MC-Unique: zUuadyWlPVCQ0U_JCQHkbQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E1493806703; Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from warthog.procyon.org.uk (unknown [10.42.28.116]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734FE1121315; Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:44:25 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <20230629155433.4170837-1-dhowells@redhat.com> <20230629155433.4170837-2-dhowells@redhat.com> To: Linus Torvalds Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Matthew Wilcox , Miklos Szeredi , Matt Whitlock , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Dave Chinner , Jens Axboe , linux-fsdevel@kvack.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] splice: Fix corruption of spliced data after splice() returns MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <63040.1690191864.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2023 10:44:24 +0100 Message-ID: <63041.1690191864@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.3 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So what's the API that provides the semantics of _copying_? > > It's called "read()" and "write()". What about copy_file_range()? That seems to fall back to splicing if not directly implemented by the filesystem. It looks like the manpage for that needs updating too - or should that actually copy? David