+void pipe_wait(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe);
+
+struct pipe_inode_info * alloc_pipe_info(struct inode * inode);
+void free_pipe_info(struct inode * inode);
+void __free_pipe_info(struct pipe_inode_info *);
+
+/* Generic pipe buffer ops functions */
+void *generic_pipe_buf_map(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *, int);
+void generic_pipe_buf_unmap(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *, void *);
+void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
+int generic_pipe_buf_pin(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
+int generic_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *);
+
+/*
+ * splice is tied to pipes as a transport (at least for now), so we'll just
+ * add the splice flags here.
+ */
+#define SPLICE_F_MOVE (0x01) /* move pages instead of copying */
+#define SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK (0x02) /* don't block on the pipe splicing (but */
+ /* we may still block on the fd we splice */
+ /* from/to, of course */
+#define SPLICE_F_MORE (0x04) /* expect more data */
+#define SPLICE_F_GIFT (0x08) /* pages passed in are a gift */
+
+/*
+ * Passed to the actors
+ */
+struct splice_desc {
+ unsigned int len, total_len; /* current and remaining length */
+ unsigned int flags; /* splice flags */
+ struct file *file; /* file to read/write */
+ loff_t pos; /* file position */
+};
+
+typedef int (splice_actor)(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *,
+ struct splice_desc *);