drivers/char/mem: implement splice() for /dev/zero, /dev/full

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This allows splicing zeroed pages into a pipe, and allows discarding
pages from a pipe by splicing them to /dev/zero.  Writing to /dev/zero
should have the same effect as writing to /dev/null, and a
"splice_write" implementation exists only for /dev/null.

(The /dev/zero splice_read implementation could be optimized by
pushing references to the global zero page to the pipe, but that's an
optimization for another day.)

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230919073743.1066313-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Max Kellermann 2023-09-19 09:37:42 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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