lib/scatterlist: Introduce sgl_alloc() and sgl_free()
commit e80a0af4 upstream. Many kernel drivers contain code that allocates and frees both a scatterlist and the pages that populate that scatterlist. Introduce functions in lib/scatterlist.c that perform these tasks instead of duplicating this functionality in multiple drivers. Only include these functions in the build if CONFIG_SGL_ALLOC=y to avoid that the kernel size increases if this functionality is not used. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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