linux-kernel - Re: support splice reads on seq

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Message-ID: <20201103184815.GA24136@lst.de>
Date:   Tue, 3 Nov 2020 19:48:15 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: support splice reads on seq_file based procfs files

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:09:47AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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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