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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-11 10:52:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-06-11 11:10:35 -0700
commitc9059598ea8981d02356eead3188bf7fa4d717b8 (patch)
tree03e73b20a30e988da7c6a3e0ad93b2dc5843274d /fs/pipe.c
parent0a33f80a8373eca7f4bea3961d1346c3815fa5ed (diff)
parentb0fd271d5fba0b2d00888363f3869e3f9b26caa9 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits) block: add request clone interface (v2) floppy: fix hibernation ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM" cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled. cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core() cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq() cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages" block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt ... Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in: block/blk-sysfs.c drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c drivers/ide/ide-tape.c include/trace/events/block.h kernel/trace/blktrace.c
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diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 13414ec45b8..f7dd21ad85a 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -302,6 +302,20 @@ int generic_pipe_buf_confirm(struct pipe_inode_info *info,
return 0;
}
+/**
+ * generic_pipe_buf_release - put a reference to a &struct pipe_buffer
+ * @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
+ * @buf: the buffer to put a reference to
+ *
+ * Description:
+ * This function releases a reference to @buf.
+ */
+void generic_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
+ struct pipe_buffer *buf)
+{
+ page_cache_release(buf->page);
+}
+
static const struct pipe_buf_operations anon_pipe_buf_ops = {
.can_merge = 1,
.map = generic_pipe_buf_map,