scatterlist: add sg_alloc_table_from_pages function
This patch adds a new constructor for an sg table. The table is constructed
from an array of struct pages. All contiguous chunks of the pages are merged
into a single sg nodes. A user may provide an offset and a size of a buffer if
the buffer is not page-aligned.
The function is dedicated for DMABUF exporters which often perform conversion
from an page array to a scatterlist. Moreover the scatterlist should be
squashed in order to save memory and to speed-up the process of DMA mapping
using dma_map_sg.
The code is based on the patch 'v4l: vb2-dma-contig: add support for
scatterlist in userptr mode' and hints from Laurent Pinchart.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Stanislawski <t.stanislaws@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/scatterlist.h b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
index ac9586d..7b600da 100644
--- a/include/linux/scatterlist.h
+++ b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
@@ -214,6 +214,10 @@
int __sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *, unsigned int, unsigned int, gfp_t,
sg_alloc_fn *);
int sg_alloc_table(struct sg_table *, unsigned int, gfp_t);
+int sg_alloc_table_from_pages(struct sg_table *sgt,
+ struct page **pages, unsigned int n_pages,
+ unsigned long offset, unsigned long size,
+ gfp_t gfp_mask);
size_t sg_copy_from_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
void *buf, size_t buflen);