lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer()
The only difference between sg_pcopy_{from,to}_buffer() and
sg_copy_{from,to}_buffer() is an additional argument that specifies the
number of bytes to skip the SG list before copying.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@freescale.com>
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/scatterlist.h b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
index 2680677..adae88f 100644
--- a/include/linux/scatterlist.h
+++ b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@
size_t sg_copy_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
void *buf, size_t buflen);
+size_t sg_pcopy_from_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
+ void *buf, size_t buflen, off_t skip);
+size_t sg_pcopy_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
+ void *buf, size_t buflen, off_t skip);
+
/*
* Maximum number of entries that will be allocated in one piece, if
* a list larger than this is required then chaining will be utilized.