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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2013-07-09 03:01:54 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-09 21:33:30 +0400
commitdf642cea25c90dc7d5dcd9d3b480b6b59de7d787 (patch)
tree947e40ff7e12907461082d88ef390084bb90f915 /include
parent1105200480b4faeb673d1b23658650b003302c06 (diff)
downloadlinux-df642cea25c90dc7d5dcd9d3b480b6b59de7d787.tar.xz
lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer()
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. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@freescale.com> Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/scatterlist.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/scatterlist.h b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
index 26806775b11b..adae88f5b0ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/scatterlist.h
+++ b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ size_t sg_copy_from_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
size_t sg_copy_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
void *buf, size_t buflen);
+size_t sg_pcopy_from_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
+ 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);
+
/*
* Maximum number of entries that will be allocated in one piece, if
* a list larger than this is required then chaining will be utilized.