On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 06:49:55PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > The existing sg_zero_buffer() function is a bit restrictive. For > example protection information (PI) blocks are usually initialized > to 0xff bytes. As its name suggests sgl_memset() is modelled on > memset(). One difference is the type of the val argument which is > u8 rather than int. Plus it returns the number of bytes (over)written. > > Change implementation of sg_zero_buffer() to call this new function. > > Reviewed-by: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > include/linux/scatterlist.h | 3 ++ > lib/scatterlist.c | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/scatterlist.h b/include/linux/scatterlist.h > index 71be65f9ebb5..70d3f1f73df1 100644 > +++ b/include/linux/scatterlist.h > @@ -333,6 +333,9 @@ bool sgl_compare_sgl_idx(struct scatterlist *x_sgl, unsigned int x_nents, off_t > struct scatterlist *y_sgl, unsigned int y_nents, off_t y_skip, > size_t n_bytes, size_t *miscompare_idx); > > +size_t sgl_memset(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents, off_t skip, > + u8 val, size_t n_bytes); > + > /* > * Maximum number of entries that will be allocated in one piece, if > * a list larger than this is required then chaining will be utilized. > diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c > index 9332365e7eb6..f06614a880c8 100644 > +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c > @@ -1038,26 +1038,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_pcopy_to_buffer); > size_t sg_zero_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents, > size_t buflen, off_t skip) > { > - unsigned int offset = 0; > - struct sg_mapping_iter miter; > - unsigned int sg_flags = SG_MITER_ATOMIC | SG_MITER_TO_SG; > - > - sg_miter_start(&miter, sgl, nents, sg_flags); > - > - if (!sg_miter_skip(&miter, skip)) > - return false; > - > - while (offset < buflen && sg_miter_next(&miter)) { > - unsigned int len; > - > - len = min(miter.length, buflen - offset); > - memset(miter.addr, 0, len); > - > - offset += len; > - } > - > - sg_miter_stop(&miter); > - return offset; > + return sgl_memset(sgl, nents, skip, 0, buflen); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_zero_buffer); May as well make this one liner a static inline in the header. Just rename this function to sgl_memset so the diff is clearer Jason