In dm-crypt, it need to map one bio to scatterlist for improving the
hardware engine encryption efficiency. Thus this patch introduces the
blk_bio_map_sg() function to map one bio with scatterlists.
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-merge.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index 2613531..bca0609 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -417,6 +417,25 @@ single_segment:
}
/*
+ * Map a bio to scatterlist, return number of sg entries setup. Caller must
+ * make sure sg can hold bio segments entries and detach the bio from list.
+ */
+int blk_bio_map_sg(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio,
+ struct scatterlist *sglist)
+{
+ struct scatterlist *sg = NULL;
+ int nsegs;
+
+ nsegs = __blk_bios_map_sg(q, bio, sglist, &sg);
+
+ if (sg)
+ sg_mark_end(sg);
+
+ return nsegs;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_bio_map_sg);
+
+/*
* map a request to scatterlist, return number of sg entries setup. Caller
* must make sure sg can hold rq->nr_phys_segments entries
*/
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 3d9cf32..cbe31f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1024,6 +1024,8 @@ extern void blk_queue_write_cache(struct request_queue *q, bool enabled, bool fu
extern struct backing_dev_info *blk_get_backing_dev_info(struct block_device *bdev);
extern int blk_rq_map_sg(struct request_queue *, struct request *, struct scatterlist *);
+extern int blk_bio_map_sg(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio,
+ struct scatterlist *sglist);
extern void blk_dump_rq_flags(struct request *, char *);
extern long nr_blockdev_pages(void);
--
1.7.9.5
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