[RFC PATCH v2 07/21] iov_iter: let callers extract iovecs and bio_vecs

[Dave Kleikamp]

From: Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx>

direct IO treats memory from user iovecs and memory from arrays of
kernel pages very differently.  User memory is pinned and worked with in
batches while kernel pages are always pinned and don't require
additional processing.

Rather than try and provide an absctraction that includes these
different behaviours we let direct IO extract the memory structs and
hand them to the existing code.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/fs.h |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 9895876..5b69020 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -604,6 +604,15 @@ static inline void iov_iter_init_bvec(struct iov_iter *i,
 
 	iov_iter_advance(i, written);
 }
+static inline int iov_iter_has_bvec(struct iov_iter *i)
+{
+	return i->ops == &ii_bvec_ops;
+}
+static inline struct bio_vec *iov_iter_bvec(struct iov_iter *i)
+{
+	BUG_ON(!iov_iter_has_bvec(i));
+	return (struct bio_vec *)i->data;
+}
 
 extern struct iov_iter_ops ii_iovec_ops;
 
@@ -619,6 +628,15 @@ static inline void iov_iter_init(struct iov_iter *i,
 
 	iov_iter_advance(i, written);
 }
+static inline int iov_iter_has_iovec(struct iov_iter *i)
+{
+	return i->ops == &ii_iovec_ops;
+}
+static inline struct iovec *iov_iter_iovec(struct iov_iter *i)
+{
+	BUG_ON(!iov_iter_has_iovec(i));
+	return (struct iovec *)i->data;
+}
 
 static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i)
 {
-- 
1.7.9.5

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