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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2026-01-26 08:53:35 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2026-01-28 15:16:39 +0300
commit91b73c458182801a8c9cf6135335e064567d1013 (patch)
treeff2c6e2424498f13eca916b42227e76aa46cafde /include/linux
parent12da89e8844ae16e86b75a32b34a4f0b0525f453 (diff)
downloadlinux-91b73c458182801a8c9cf6135335e064567d1013.tar.xz
iov_iter: extract a iov_iter_extract_bvecs helper from bio code
Massage __bio_iov_iter_get_pages so that it doesn't need the bio, and move it to lib/iov_iter.c so that it can be used by block code for other things than filling a bio and by other subsystems like netfs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/uio.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 5b127043a151..a9bc5b3067e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -389,6 +389,9 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_extract_pages(struct iov_iter *i, struct page ***pages,
size_t maxsize, unsigned int maxpages,
iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags,
size_t *offset0);
+ssize_t iov_iter_extract_bvecs(struct iov_iter *iter, struct bio_vec *bv,
+ size_t max_size, unsigned short *nr_vecs,
+ unsigned short max_vecs, iov_iter_extraction_t extraction_flags);
/**
* iov_iter_extract_will_pin - Indicate how pages from the iterator will be retained