Hello Jens, As you know there are multiple drivers that both allocate a scatter/gather list and populate that list with pages. This patch series moves the code for allocating and freeing such scatterlists from several drivers into lib/scatterlist.c. Please consider this patch series for kernel v4.16. Changes between v3 and v4: - Left out patches 6..8 as requested by Martin Petersen. These patches will be sent to Martin after this series has been merged. Changes between v2 and v3: - Added Reviewed-by tags that had been posted as replies on v2. - Cc'ed the crypto maintainers for the entire patch series. Changes between v1 and v2: - Moved the sgl_alloc*() and sgl_free() functions from a new source file into lib/scatterlist.c. - Changed the argument order for the sgl_alloc*() functions such that the (pointer to) the output argument comes last. Bart Van Assche (5): lib/scatterlist: Introduce sgl_alloc() and sgl_free() crypto: scompress - use sgl_alloc() and sgl_free() nvmet/fc: Use sgl_alloc() and sgl_free() nvmet/rdma: Use sgl_alloc() and sgl_free() target: Use sgl_alloc_order() and sgl_free() crypto/Kconfig | 1 + crypto/scompress.c | 51 +--------------- drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig | 2 + drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 36 +---------- drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c | 63 ++------------------ drivers/target/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/target/target_core_transport.c | 46 ++------------- include/linux/scatterlist.h | 10 ++++ lib/Kconfig | 4 ++ lib/scatterlist.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 10 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 184 deletions(-) -- 2.15.1
