This is a thin wrapper around bio_add_page(). The main advantage here
is the documentation that the submitter can expect to see folios in the
completion handler, and that stupidly large folios are not supported.
It's not currently possible to allocate stupidly large folios, but if
it ever becomes possible, this function will fail gracefully instead of
doing I/O to the wrong bytes.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/bio.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/bio.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 1fab762e079b..c64e35548fb2 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -933,6 +933,27 @@ int bio_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_add_page);
+/**
+ * bio_add_folio - Attempt to add part of a folio to a bio.
+ * @bio: Bio to add to.
+ * @folio: Folio to add.
+ * @len: How many bytes from the folio to add.
+ * @off: First byte in this folio to add.
+ *
+ * Always uses the head page of the folio in the bio. If a submitter only
+ * uses bio_add_folio(), it can count on never seeing tail pages in the
+ * completion routine. BIOs do not support folios that are 4GiB or larger.
+ *
+ * Return: The number of bytes from this folio added to the bio.
+ */
+size_t bio_add_folio(struct bio *bio, struct folio *folio, size_t len,
+ size_t off)
+{
+ if (len > UINT_MAX || off > UINT_MAX)
+ return 0;
+ return bio_add_page(bio, &folio->page, len, off);
+}
+
void bio_release_pages(struct bio *bio, bool mark_dirty)
{
struct bvec_iter_all iter_all;
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 2203b686e1f0..ade93e2de6a1 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -462,7 +462,8 @@ extern void bio_uninit(struct bio *);
extern void bio_reset(struct bio *);
void bio_chain(struct bio *, struct bio *);
-extern int bio_add_page(struct bio *, struct page *, unsigned int,unsigned int);
+int bio_add_page(struct bio *, struct page *, unsigned len, unsigned off);
+size_t bio_add_folio(struct bio *, struct folio *, size_t len, size_t off);
extern int bio_add_pc_page(struct request_queue *, struct bio *, struct page *,
unsigned int, unsigned int);
int bio_add_zone_append_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
--
2.30.2
