This patchset introduces sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer(),
which copy data between a linear buffer and an SG list.
The only difference between sg_pcopy_{from,to}_buffer() and
sg_copy_{from,to}_buffer() is an additional argument that specifies the
number of bytes to skip the SG list before copying.
The main reason for introducing these functions is to fix a problem in
scsi_debug module. And there is a local function in crypto/talitos
module, which can be replaced by sg_pcopy_to_buffer().
This patch:
sg_miter_get_next_page() is used to proceed page iterator to the next page
if necessary, and will be used to implement the variants of
sg_copy_{from,to}_buffer() later.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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