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scatterlist: add sg_zero_buffer() helper 

The sg_zero_buffer() helper is used to zero fill an area in a SG
list.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
[hch: renamed to sg_zero_buffer]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
zero-colors
Johannes Thumshirn 2017-06-07 11:45:28 +02:00 committed by Christoph Hellwig
parent d19d4c8eb1
commit 0945e56994
2 changed files with 37 additions and 0 deletions
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include/linux/scatterlist.h
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@ -278,6 +278,8 @@ size_t sg_pcopy_from_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
const void *buf, size_t buflen, off_t skip);
size_t sg_pcopy_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
void *buf, size_t buflen, off_t skip);
size_t sg_zero_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
size_t buflen, off_t skip);
/*
* Maximum number of entries that will be allocated in one piece, if

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lib/scatterlist.c
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@ -751,3 +751,38 @@ size_t sg_pcopy_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
return sg_copy_buffer(sgl, nents, buf, buflen, skip, true);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_pcopy_to_buffer);
/**
* sg_zero_buffer - Zero-out a part of a SG list
* @sgl: The SG list
* @nents: Number of SG entries
* @buflen: The number of bytes to zero out
* @skip: Number of bytes to skip before zeroing
*
* Returns the number of bytes zeroed.
**/
size_t sg_zero_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
size_t buflen, off_t skip)
{
unsigned int offset = 0;
struct sg_mapping_iter miter;
unsigned int sg_flags = SG_MITER_ATOMIC | SG_MITER_TO_SG;
sg_miter_start(&miter, sgl, nents, sg_flags);
if (!sg_miter_skip(&miter, skip))
return false;
while (offset < buflen && sg_miter_next(&miter)) {
unsigned int len;
len = min(miter.length, buflen - offset);
memset(miter.addr, 0, len);
offset += len;
}
sg_miter_stop(&miter);
return offset;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_zero_buffer);