shmem: Implement splice-read

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The new filemap_splice_read() has an implicit expectation via
filemap_get_pages() that ->read_folio() exists if ->readahead() doesn't
fully populate the pagecache of the file it is reading from[1], potentially
leading to a jump to NULL if this doesn't exist.  shmem, however, (and by
extension, tmpfs, ramfs and rootfs), doesn't have ->read_folio(),

Work around this by equipping shmem with its own splice-read
implementation, based on filemap_splice_read(), but able to paste in
zero_page when there's a page missing.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck7@gmail.com>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y+pdHFFTk1TTEBsO@makrotopia.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-10-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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David Howells 2023-05-22 14:49:56 +01:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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