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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:51:24 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] scatterlist: new helper functions
On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:36:12 +0200 Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> While developing memstick driver for legacy memsticks
> I found the need in few helpers that I think should be
> in common scatterlist library
>
> The functions that were added:
>
> * sg_nents/sg_total_len - iterate over scatterlist to figure
> out total length of memory it covers / number of entries.
> Useful for not keeping that information in side channels.
>
> * sg_copy/sg_advance - Allow to break scatterlists apart into smaller chunks.
> sg_copy creates smaller scatterlist, spanning first 'len' bytes, while
> sg_advance edits the scatterlist in such way that it skips over 'len' bytes.
>
>
> * sg_compare_to_buffer - another function to hide gory details of access
> to sg list by CPU.
> Allows to transparently compare contents of the sg list to given linear
> buffer.
> If needed later, a function that compares two sgs can be added.
>
> All of this code is used by my ms_block.c driver.
>
> ---
> include/linux/scatterlist.h | 6 ++
> lib/scatterlist.c | 137 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c
> index 4ceb05d..2f18938 100644
> --- a/lib/scatterlist.c
> +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c
> @@ -39,6 +39,77 @@ struct scatterlist *sg_next(struct scatterlist *sg)
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_next);
>
> /**
> + * sg_advance - advance scatterlist by 'consumed' bytes
> + * @sg - the current sg entry
> + * @consumed - how much bytes to advance
kernel-doc notation for parameters is like so:
* @sg: the current sg entry
> + *
no empty line, please.
> + */
> +struct scatterlist *sg_advance(struct scatterlist *sg, int consumed)
> +{
> + while (consumed >= sg->length) {
> + consumed -= sg->length;
> +
> + sg = sg_next(sg);
> + if (!sg)
> + break;
> + }
> +
> + WARN_ON(!sg && consumed);
> +
> + if (!sg)
> + return NULL;
> +
> + sg->offset += consumed;
> + sg->length -= consumed;
> +
> + if (sg->offset >= PAGE_SIZE) {
> + struct page *page =
> + nth_page(sg_page(sg), sg->offset / PAGE_SIZE);
> + sg_set_page(sg, page, sg->length, sg->offset % PAGE_SIZE);
> + }
> +
> + return sg;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_advance);
> +
> +/**
> + * sg_nents - calculate number of sg entries in sg list
> + * @sg - the current sg entry
* @sg:
> + *
> + * Allows to calculate dynamicly the lenght of the sg table, based on
dynamically the length
> + * assumption that last entry is NULL
> + */
> +int sg_nents(struct scatterlist *sg)
> +{
> + int nents = 0;
> + while (sg) {
> + nents++;
> + sg = sg_next(sg);
> + }
> +
> + return nents;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_nents);
> +
> +/**
> + * sg_total_len - calculate total lenght of scatterlist
length
> + * @sg - the current sg entry
* @sg:
> + *
> + * Dynamicly calculate total number of bytes in a sg list
Dynamically in an sg list
> + * based on assumption that list ends with a NULL entry
> + */
> +int sg_total_len(struct scatterlist *sg)
> +{
> + int len = 0;
> + while (sg) {
> + len += sg->length;
> + sg = sg_next(sg);
> + }
> + return len;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_total_len);
> +
> +/**
> * sg_last - return the last scatterlist entry in a list
> * @sgl: First entry in the scatterlist
> * @nents: Number of entries in the scatterlist
> @@ -110,6 +181,33 @@ void sg_init_one(struct scatterlist *sg, const void *buf, unsigned int buflen)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_init_one);
>
> +/**
> + * sg_copy - copies sg entries from sg_from to sg_to, such
> + * as sg_to covers first 'len' bytes from sg_from.
Add function parameters to kernel-doc, please.
> + */
> +int sg_copy(struct scatterlist *sg_from, struct scatterlist *sg_to, int len)
> +{
> + while (len > sg_from->length) {
> + len -= sg_from->length;
> +
> + sg_set_page(sg_to, sg_page(sg_from),
> + sg_from->length, sg_from->offset);
> +
> + sg_to = sg_next(sg_to);
> + sg_from = sg_next(sg_from);
> +
> + if (len && (!sg_from || !sg_to))
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> +
> + if (len)
> + sg_set_page(sg_to, sg_page(sg_from),
> + len, sg_from->offset);
> + sg_mark_end(sg_to);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_copy);
> +
> /*
> * The default behaviour of sg_alloc_table() is to use these kmalloc/kfree
> * helpers.
> @@ -517,3 +615,42 @@ size_t sg_copy_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
> return sg_copy_buffer(sgl, nents, buf, buflen, 1);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_copy_to_buffer);
> +
> +
> +/**
> + * sg_compare_to_buffer - compare contents of the data pointeted by sg table
pointed to by sg table
> + * to a kernel ram buffer
RAM
> + * @sg - the current sg entry
> + * @buffer - linear buffer to compare with
> + * @len - lenght of that buffer
* @sg:
* @buffer:
* @len: length
Returns 0 for equal or what??
> + */
> +bool sg_compare_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sg, u8 *buffer, size_t len)
> +{
Thanks for adding the kernel-doc.
---
~Randy
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