Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] trace: splice support for tracing_pipe

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 10:50:17 EST



On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:
> +
> +static ssize_t tracing_splice_read_pipe(struct file *filp,
> + loff_t *ppos,
> + struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
> + size_t len,
> + unsigned int flags)
> +{
> + struct page *pages[PIPE_BUFFERS];
> + struct partial_page partial[PIPE_BUFFERS];
> + struct trace_iterator *iter = filp->private_data;
> + struct splice_pipe_desc spd = {
> + .pages = pages,
> + .partial = partial,
> + .nr_pages = 0, /* This gets updated below. */
> + .flags = flags,
> + .ops = &tracing_pipe_buf_ops,
> + .spd_release = tracing_spd_release_pipe,
> + };

Note, this is getting a little stack heavy. It is still in bounds,
but I get very nervous when I see structure arrays on the stack.
If either the structure or the array grows large, we can be in trouble.

-- Steve

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