virtio_ring: virtqueue_add_outbuf / virtqueue_add_inbuf.

These are specialized versions of virtqueue_add_buf(), which cover
over 80% of cases and are far clearer.

In particular, the scatterlists passed to these functions don't have
to be clean (ie. we ignore end markers).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index a78ad459cc8..5217baf5528 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -366,6 +366,50 @@ int virtqueue_add_sgs(struct virtqueue *_vq,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_add_sgs);
 
 /**
+ * virtqueue_add_outbuf - expose output buffers to other end
+ * @vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
+ * @sgs: array of scatterlists (need not be terminated!)
+ * @num: the number of scatterlists readable by other side
+ * @data: the token identifying the buffer.
+ * @gfp: how to do memory allocations (if necessary).
+ *
+ * Caller must ensure we don't call this with other virtqueue operations
+ * at the same time (except where noted).
+ *
+ * Returns zero or a negative error (ie. ENOSPC, ENOMEM).
+ */
+int virtqueue_add_outbuf(struct virtqueue *vq,
+			 struct scatterlist sg[], unsigned int num,
+			 void *data,
+			 gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	return virtqueue_add(vq, &sg, sg_next_arr, num, 0, 1, 0, data, gfp);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_add_outbuf);
+
+/**
+ * virtqueue_add_inbuf - expose input buffers to other end
+ * @vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
+ * @sgs: array of scatterlists (need not be terminated!)
+ * @num: the number of scatterlists writable by other side
+ * @data: the token identifying the buffer.
+ * @gfp: how to do memory allocations (if necessary).
+ *
+ * Caller must ensure we don't call this with other virtqueue operations
+ * at the same time (except where noted).
+ *
+ * Returns zero or a negative error (ie. ENOSPC, ENOMEM).
+ */
+int virtqueue_add_inbuf(struct virtqueue *vq,
+			struct scatterlist sg[], unsigned int num,
+			void *data,
+			gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	return virtqueue_add(vq, &sg, sg_next_arr, 0, num, 0, 1, data, gfp);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_add_inbuf);
+
+/**
  * virtqueue_kick_prepare - first half of split virtqueue_kick call.
  * @vq: the struct virtqueue
  *