splice: fix kmaps in default_file_splice_write()
Unfortunately multiple kmap() within a single thread are deadlockable,
so writing out multiple buffers with writev() isn't possible.
Change the implementation so that it does a separate write() for each
buffer. This actually simplifies the code a lot since the
splice_from_pipe() helper can be used.
This limitation is caused by HIGHMEM pages, and so only affects a
subset of architectures and configurations. In the future it may be
worth to implement default_file_splice_write() in a more efficient way
on configs that allow it.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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