From: Jens Axboe Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:59:21 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] Add support for the sys_vmsplice syscall X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc3~10^2~2 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=912d35f86781e64d73be1ef358f703c08905ac37;p=pandora-kernel.git [PATCH] Add support for the sys_vmsplice syscall sys_splice() moves data to/from pipes with a file input/output. sys_vmsplice() moves data to a pipe, with the input being a user address range instead. This uses an approach suggested by Linus, where we can hold partial ranges inside the pages[] map. Hopefully this will be useful for network receive support as well. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Reading git-diff-tree failed