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docbook: add pipes, other fixes

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Fix some typos in pipe.c and splice.c.
Add pipes API to kernel-api.tmpl.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Randy Dunlap 2007-07-27 08:08:51 +02:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 7c2ff389bb
commit 79685b8dee
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Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
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@ -704,14 +704,23 @@ X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c
<chapter id="splice">
<title>splice API</title>
<para>)
<para>
splice is a method for moving blocks of data around inside the
kernel, without continually transferring it between the kernel
kernel, without continually transferring them between the kernel
and user space.
</para>
!Iinclude/linux/splice.h
!Ffs/splice.c
</chapter>
<chapter id="pipes">
<title>pipes API</title>
<para>
Pipe interfaces are all for in-kernel (builtin image) use.
They are not exported for use by modules.
</para>
!Iinclude/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
!Ffs/pipe.c
</chapter>
</book>

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fs/pipe.c
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@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
/**
* generic_pipe_buf_confirm - verify contents of the pipe buffer
* @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
* @info: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
* @buf: the buffer to confirm
*
* Description:

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fs/splice.c
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@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static const struct pipe_buf_operations user_page_pipe_buf_ops = {
* @spd: data to fill
*
* Description:
* @spd contains a map of pages and len/offset tupples, a long with
* @spd contains a map of pages and len/offset tuples, along with
* the struct pipe_buf_operations associated with these pages. This
* function will link that data to the pipe.
*
@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ static long do_splice_to(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
* Description:
* This is a special case helper to splice directly between two
* points, without requiring an explicit pipe. Internally an allocated
* pipe is cached in the process, and reused during the life time of
* pipe is cached in the process, and reused during the lifetime of
* that process.
*
*/