Re: tmpfs + sendfile bug ?

[torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)]

In article <m3bsomwsgs.fsf@linux.local>, Christoph Rohland  <cr@sap.com> wrote:
>
>tmpfs does not provide the necessary functions for sendfile and lo:
>readpage, prepare_write and commitwrite.
>
>And I do not see a way how to provide readpage in tmpfs :-(

Why not just do it the same way ramfs does?

If you don't have any backing store, you know that the page is empty. If
you _do_ have backing store, a readpage() won't be called. Ergo:

	static int ramfs_readpage(struct file *file, struct page * page)
	{
		if (!Page_Uptodate(page)) {
			memset(kmap(page), 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE);
			kunmap(page);
			flush_dcache_page(page);   
			SetPageUptodate(page);
		}
		UnlockPage(page);
		return 0;
	}

while the writepage ones just do a "SetPageDirty(page)" (with
prepare_write() needing to do the same "Page_Uptodate()" checks to see
if we need to clear stuff first).

		Linus