[PATCH 22/26] block: implement bio helper to add iter bvec pages to bio

[Jens Axboe]

For an ITER_BVEC, we can just iterate the iov and add the pages
to the bio directly.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
---
 block/bio.c         | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/bio.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 3e45e5650265..8158edeb750e 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -904,6 +904,33 @@ int bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct 
iov_iter *iter)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bio_iov_iter_get_pages);
 
+/**
+ * bio_iov_bvec_add_pages - add pages from an ITER_BVEC to a bio
+ * @bio: bio to add pages to
+ * @iter: iov iterator describing the region to be added
+ *
+ * Iterate pages in the @iter and add them to the bio. We flag the
+ * @bio with BIO_HOLD_PAGES, telling IO completion not to free them.
+ */
+int bio_iov_bvec_add_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
+{
+       unsigned short orig_vcnt = bio->bi_vcnt;
+       const struct bio_vec *bv;
+
+       do {
+               size_t size;
+
+               bv = iter->bvec + iter->iov_offset;
+               size = bio_add_page(bio, bv->bv_page, bv->bv_len, 
bv->bv_offset);
+               if (size != bv->bv_len)
+                       break;
+               iov_iter_advance(iter, size);
+       } while (iov_iter_count(iter) && !bio_full(bio));
+
+       bio_set_flag(bio, BIO_HOLD_PAGES);
+       return bio->bi_vcnt > orig_vcnt ? 0 : -EINVAL;
+}
+
 static void submit_bio_wait_endio(struct bio *bio)
 {
        complete(bio->bi_private);
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 7380b094dcca..ca25ea890192 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ bool __bio_try_merge_page(struct bio *bio, struct page 
*page,
 void __bio_add_page(struct bio *bio, struct page *page,
                unsigned int len, unsigned int off);
 int bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter);
+int bio_iov_bvec_add_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter);
 struct rq_map_data;
 extern struct bio *bio_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *,
                                    struct iov_iter *, gfp_t);
-- 
2.17.1