From 7b2c99d15559e285384c742db52316802e24b0bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 04:05:57 -0400 Subject: new helper: iov_iter_get_pages() iov_iter_get_pages(iter, pages, maxsize, &start) grabs references pinning the pages of up to maxsize of (contiguous) data from iter. Returns the amount of memory grabbed or -error. In case of success, the requested area begins at offset start in pages[0] and runs through pages[1], etc. Less than requested amount might be returned - either because the contiguous area in the beginning of iterator is smaller than requested, or because the kernel failed to pin that many pages. direct-io.c switched to using iov_iter_get_pages() Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/uio.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/uio.h') diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h index b80bbe197d13..341986116d83 100644 --- a/include/linux/uio.h +++ b/include/linux/uio.h @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ size_t copy_page_to_iter(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t bytes, unsigned long iov_iter_alignment(const struct iov_iter *i); void iov_iter_init(struct iov_iter *i, int direction, const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, size_t count); +ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, struct page **pages, + size_t maxsize, size_t *start); static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i) { -- cgit v1.2.3