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: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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