Add a helper to add a directly mapped kernel virtual address to a
bio so that callers don't have to convert to pages or folios.
For now only the _nofail variant is provided as that is what all the
obvious callers want.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
---
include/linux/bio.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index cafc7c215de8..0678b67162ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -417,6 +417,23 @@ void __bio_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
unsigned int len, unsigned int off);
void bio_add_folio_nofail(struct bio *bio, struct folio *folio, size_t len,
size_t off);
+
+/**
+ * bio_add_virt_nofail - add data in the diret kernel mapping to a bio
+ * @bio: destination bio
+ * @vaddr: data to add
+ * @len: length of the data to add, may cross pages
+ *
+ * Add the data at @vaddr to @bio. The caller must have ensure a segment
+ * is available for the added data. No merging into an existing segment
+ * will be performed.
+ */
+static inline void bio_add_virt_nofail(struct bio *bio, void *vaddr,
+ unsigned len)
+{
+ __bio_add_page(bio, virt_to_page(vaddr), len, offset_in_page(vaddr));
+}
+
int bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter);
void bio_iov_bvec_set(struct bio *bio, const struct iov_iter *iter);
void __bio_release_pages(struct bio *bio, bool mark_dirty);
--
2.47.2
