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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-12 16:53:38 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-12 16:53:38 +1000
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Merge commit 'origin/master' into next
Manual merge of: arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.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,