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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl13
-rw-r--r--fs/pipe.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/splice.c4
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
index eb42bf9847cb..ec7c498b69fc 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
@@ -704,14 +704,23 @@ X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c
<chapter id="splice">
<title>splice API</title>
- <para>)
+ <para>
splice is a method for moving blocks of data around inside the
- kernel, without continually transferring it between the kernel
+ kernel, without continually transferring them between the kernel
and user space.
</para>
!Iinclude/linux/splice.h
!Ffs/splice.c
</chapter>
+ <chapter id="pipes">
+ <title>pipes API</title>
+ <para>
+ Pipe interfaces are all for in-kernel (builtin image) use.
+ They are not exported for use by modules.
+ </para>
+!Iinclude/linux/pipe_fs_i.h
+!Ffs/pipe.c
+ </chapter>
</book>
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index d007830d9c87..6b3d91a691bf 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
/**
* generic_pipe_buf_confirm - verify contents of the pipe buffer
- * @pipe: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
+ * @info: the pipe that the buffer belongs to
* @buf: the buffer to confirm
*
* Description:
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 0a0973218084..c010a72ca2d2 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static const struct pipe_buf_operations user_page_pipe_buf_ops = {
* @spd: data to fill
*
* Description:
- * @spd contains a map of pages and len/offset tupples, a long with
+ * @spd contains a map of pages and len/offset tuples, along with
* the struct pipe_buf_operations associated with these pages. This
* function will link that data to the pipe.
*
@@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ static long do_splice_to(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
* Description:
* This is a special case helper to splice directly between two
* points, without requiring an explicit pipe. Internally an allocated
- * pipe is cached in the process, and reused during the life time of
+ * pipe is cached in the process, and reused during the lifetime of
* that process.
*
*/