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Commit 709d6d73 authored by Marek Szyprowski's avatar Marek Szyprowski Committed by Christoph Hellwig
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scatterlist: add generic wrappers for iterating over sgtable objects



struct sg_table is a common structure used for describing a memory
buffer. It consists of a scatterlist with memory pages and DMA addresses
(sgl entry), as well as the number of scatterlist entries: CPU pages
(orig_nents entry) and DMA mapped pages (nents entry).

It turned out that it was a common mistake to misuse nents and orig_nents
entries, calling the scatterlist iterating functions with a wrong number
of the entries.

To avoid such issues, lets introduce a common wrappers operating directly
on the struct sg_table objects, which take care of the proper use of
the nents and orig_nents entries.

While touching this, lets clarify some ambiguities in the comments for
the existing for_each helpers.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMarek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRobin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent d9d200bc
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