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2013-10-31lib/scatterlist.c: don't flush_kernel_dcache_page on slab pageMing Lei
Commit b1adaf65ba03 ("[SCSI] block: add sg buffer copy helper functions") introduces two sg buffer copy helpers, and calls flush_kernel_dcache_page() on pages in SG list after these pages are written to. Unfortunately, the commit may introduce a potential bug: - Before sending some SCSI commands, kmalloc() buffer may be passed to block layper, so flush_kernel_dcache_page() can see a slab page finally - According to cachetlb.txt, flush_kernel_dcache_page() is only called on "a user page", which surely can't be a slab page. - ARCH's implementation of flush_kernel_dcache_page() may use page mapping information to do optimization so page_mapping() will see the slab page, then VM_BUG_ON() is triggered. Aaro Koskinen reported the bug on ARM/kirkwood when DEBUG_VM is enabled, and this patch fixes the bug by adding test of '!PageSlab(miter->page)' before calling flush_kernel_dcache_page(). Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Tested-by: Simon Baatz <gmbnomis@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09lib/scatterlist: error handling in __sg_alloc_table()Dan Carpenter
I was reviewing code which I suspected might allocate a zero size SG table. That will cause memory corruption. Also we can't return before doing the memset or we could end up using uninitialized memory in the cleanup path. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-09lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer()Akinobu Mita
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>
2013-07-09lib/scatterlist: factor out sg_miter_get_next_page() from sg_miter_next()Akinobu Mita
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>
2013-03-27lib/scatterlist: sg_page_iter: support sg lists w/o backing pagesImre Deak
The i915 driver uses sg lists for memory without backing 'struct page' pages, similarly to other IO memory regions, setting only the DMA address for these. It does this, so that it can program the HW MMU tables in a uniform way both for sg lists with and without backing pages. Without a valid page pointer we can't call nth_page to get the current page in __sg_page_iter_next, so add a helper that relevant users can call separately. Also add a helper to get the DMA address of the current page (idea from Daniel). Convert all places in i915, to use the new API. Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Lespiau <damien.lespiau@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
2013-02-27lib/scatterlist: use page iterator in the mapping iteratorImre Deak
For better code reuse use the newly added page iterator to iterate through the pages. The offset, length within the page is still calculated by the mapping iterator as well as the actual mapping. Idea from Tejun Heo. Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27lib/scatterlist: add simple page iteratorImre Deak
Add an iterator to walk through a scatter list a page at a time starting at a specific page offset. As opposed to the mapping iterator this is meant to be small, performing well even in simple loops like collecting all pages on the scatterlist into an array or setting up an iommu table based on the pages' DMA address. Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error.Nick Bowler
There is absolutely no reason to crash the kernel when we have a perfectly good return value already available to use for conveying failure status. Let's return an error code instead of crashing the kernel: that sounds like a much better plan. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/E2BIG/EINVAL/] Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-11Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe: "Core block IO bits for 3.7. Not a huge round this time, it contains: - First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation and freeing. - WRITE_SAME support from Martin. - Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes the block size of a device. - Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards). - A few other minor fixups." Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew Morton. It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit 6b2dbba8b6ac: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree"). So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the internal VM knowledge that has changed. * 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits) block: makes bio_split support bio without data scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents scatterlist: add sg_nents fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time block: fix request_queue->flags initialization block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue() block: ioctl to zero block ranges block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME block: Implement support for WRITE SAME block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges block: Clean up special command handling logic block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold block: reject invalid queue attribute values block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc() block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc() ...
2012-10-06scatterlist: atomic sg_mapping_iter() no longer needs disabled IRQsTejun Heo
SG mapping iterator w/ SG_MITER_ATOMIC set required IRQ disabled because it originally used KM_BIO_SRC_IRQ to allow use from IRQ handlers. kmap_atomic() has long been updated to handle stacking atomic mapping requests on per-cpu basis and only requires not sleeping while mapped. Update sg_mapping_iter such that atomic iterators only require disabling preemption instead of disabling IRQ. While at it, convert wte weird @ARG@ notations to @ARG in the comment of sg_miter_start(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-09-28scatterlist: refactor the sg_nentsMaxim Levitsky
Replace 'while' with 'for' as suggested by Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-09-27scatterlist: add sg_nentsMaxim Levitsky
Useful helper to know the number of entries in scatterlist. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-07-30Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge Andrew's first set of patches: "Non-MM patches: - lots of misc bits - tree-wide have_clk() cleanups - quite a lot of printk tweaks. I draw your attention to "printk: convert the format for KERN_<LEVEL> to a 2 byte pattern" which looks a bit scary. But afaict it's solid. - backlight updates - lib/ feature work (notably the addition and use of memweight()) - checkpatch updates - rtc updates - nilfs updates - fatfs updates (partial, still waiting for acks) - kdump, proc, fork, IPC, sysctl, taskstats, pps, etc - new fault-injection feature work" * Merge emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (128 commits) drivers/misc/lkdtm.c: fix missing allocation failure check lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table() fault-injection: add tool to run command with failslab or fail_page_alloc fault-injection: add selftests for cpu and memory hotplug powerpc: pSeries reconfig notifier error injection module memory: memory notifier error injection module PM: PM notifier error injection module cpu: rewrite cpu-notifier-error-inject module fault-injection: notifier error injection c/r: fcntl: add F_GETOWNER_UIDS option resource: make sure requested range is included in the root range include/linux/aio.h: cpp->C conversions fs: cachefiles: add support for large files in filesystem caching pps: return PTR_ERR on error in device_create taskstats: check nla_reserve() return sysctl: suppress kmemleak messages ipc: use Kconfig options for __ARCH_WANT_[COMPAT_]IPC_PARSE_VERSION ipc: compat: use signed size_t types for msgsnd and msgrcv ipc: allow compat IPC version field parsing if !ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC ipc: add COMPAT_SHMLBA support ...
2012-07-30lib/scatterlist: do not re-write gfp_flags in __sg_alloc_table()Mandeep Singh Baines
We are seeing a lot of sg_alloc_table allocation failures using the new drm prime infrastructure. We isolated the cause to code in __sg_alloc_table that was re-writing the gfp_flags. There is a comment in the code that suggest that there is an assumption about the allocation coming from a memory pool. This was likely true when sg lists were primarily used for disk I/O. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@chromium.org> Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-30scatterlist: add sg_alloc_table_from_pages functionTomasz Stanislawski
This patch adds a new constructor for an sg table. The table is constructed from an array of struct pages. All contiguous chunks of the pages are merged into a single sg nodes. A user may provide an offset and a size of a buffer if the buffer is not page-aligned. The function is dedicated for DMABUF exporters which often perform conversion from an page array to a scatterlist. Moreover the scatterlist should be squashed in order to save memory and to speed-up the process of DMA mapping using dma_map_sg. The code is based on the patch 'v4l: vb2-dma-contig: add support for scatterlist in userptr mode' and hints from Laurent Pinchart. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Stanislawski <t.stanislaws@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-24Merge tag 'module-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull cleanup of fs/ and lib/ users of module.h from Paul Gortmaker: "Fix up files in fs/ and lib/ dirs to only use module.h if they really need it. These are trivial in scope vs the work done previously. We now have things where any few remaining cleanups can be farmed out to arch or subsystem maintainers, and I have done so when possible. What is remaining here represents the bits that don't clearly lie within a single arch/subsystem boundary, like the fs dir and the lib dir. Some duplicate includes arising from overlapping fixes from independent subsystem maintainer submissions are also quashed." Fix up trivial conflicts due to clashes with other include file cleanups (including some due to the previous bug.h cleanup pull). * tag 'module-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible fs: reduce the use of module.h wherever possible includecheck: delete any duplicate instances of module.h
2012-03-20lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-07lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possiblePaul Gortmaker
For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along the way. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2010-08-30scatterlist: prevent invalid free when alloc failsJeffrey Carlyle
When alloc fails, free_table is being called. Depending on the number of bytes requested, we determine if we are going to call _get_free_page() or kmalloc(). When alloc fails, our math is wrong (due to sg_size - 1), and the last buffer is wrongfully assumed to have been allocated by kmalloc. Hence, kfree gets called and a panic occurs. Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Carlyle <jeff.carlyle@motorola.com> Signed-off-by: Olusanya Soyannwo <c23746@motorola.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-07-28lib/scatterlist: Hook sg_kmalloc into kmemleak (v2)Chris Wilson
kmemleak ignores page_alloc() and so believes the final sub-page allocation using the plain kmalloc is decoupled and lost. This leads to lots of false-positives with code that uses scatterlists. The options seem to be either to tell kmemleak that the kmalloc is not leaked or to notify kmemleak of the page allocations. The danger of the first approach is that we may hide a real leak, so choose the latter approach (of which I am not sure of the downsides). v2: Added comments on the suggestion of Catalin. Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2009-07-31lib/scatterlist: add a flags to signalize mapping directionSebastian Andrzej Siewior
sg_miter_start() is currently unaware of the direction of the copy process (to or from the scatter list). It is important to know the direction because the page has to be flushed in case the data written is seen on a different mapping in user land on cache incoherent architectures. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
2009-04-22scatterlist: make sure sg_miter_next() doesn't return 0 sized mappingsTejun Heo
Impact: fix not-so-critical but annoying bug sg_miter_next() returns 0 sized mapping if there is an zero sized sg entry in the list or at the end of each iteration. As the users always check the ->length field, this bug shouldn't be critical other than causing unnecessary iteration. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-19lib/scatterlist.c: fix kunmap() argument in sg_miter_stop()Arjan van de Ven
kunmap() takes as argument the struct page that orginally got kmap()'d, however the sg_miter_stop() function passed it the kernel virtual address instead, resulting in weird stuff. Somehow I ended up fixing this bug by accident while looking for a bug in the same area. Reported-by: kerneloops.org Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.27.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-11sg: disable interrupts inside sg_copy_bufferFUJITA Tomonori
The callers of sg_copy_buffer must disable interrupts before calling it (since it uses kmap_atomic). Some callers use it on interrupt-disabled code but some need to take the trouble to disable interrupts just for this. No wonder they forget about it and we hit a bug like: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11529 James said that it might be better to disable interrupts inside the function rather than risk the callers getting it wrong. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-07-23sg: reimplement sg mapping iteratorTejun Heo
This is alternative implementation of sg content iterator introduced by commit 83e7d317... from Pierre Ossman in next-20080716. As there's already an sg iterator which iterates over sg entries themselves, name this sg_mapping_iterator. Slightly edited description from the original implementation follows. Iteration over a sg list is not that trivial when you take into account that memory pages might have to be mapped before being used. Unfortunately, that means that some parts of the kernel restrict themselves to directly accesible memory just to not have to deal with the mess. This patch adds a simple iterator system that allows any code to easily traverse an sg list and not have to deal with all the details. The user can decide to consume part of the iteration. Also, iteration can be stopped and resumed later if releasing the kmap between iteration steps is necessary. These features are useful to implement piecemeal sg copying for interrupt drive PIO for example. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
2008-04-07[SCSI] block: add sg buffer copy helper functionsFUJITA Tomonori
This patch adds new three helper functions to copy data between an SG list and a linear buffer. - sg_copy_from_buffer copies data from linear buffer to an SG list - sg_copy_to_buffer copies data from an SG list to a linear buffer When the APIs copy data from a linear buffer to an SG list, flush_kernel_dcache_page is called. It's not necessary for everyone but it's a no-op on most architectures and in general the API is not used in performance critical path. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-28SG: work with the SCSI fixed maximum allocations.James Bottomley
SCSI sg table allocation has a maximum size (of SCSI_MAX_SG_SEGMENTS, currently 128) and this will cause a BUG_ON() in SCSI if something tries an allocation over it. This patch adds a size limit to the chaining allocator to allow the specification of the maximum allocation size for chaining, so we always chain in units of the maximum SCSI allocation size. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-01-28SG: Move functions to lib/scatterlist.c and add sg chaining allocator helpersJens Axboe
Manually doing chained sg lists is not trivial, so add some helpers to make sure that drivers get it right. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>