Add a helper to get the virtual address for a bvec. This avoids that
all callers need to know about the page + offset representation.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
---
include/linux/bvec.h | 12
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/bvec.h b/include/linux/bvec.h
index f9fa43b940ff..0e9bdd42dafb 100644
--- a/include/linux/bvec.h
+++ b/include/linux/bvec.h
@@ -229,4 +229,16 @@ static inline void memzero_bvec(struct bio_vec *bvec)
memzero_page(bvec->bv_page, bvec->bv_offset, bvec->bv_len);
}
+/**
+ * bvec_virt - return the virtual address for a bvec
+ * @bvec: bvec to return the virtual address for
+ *
+ * Note: the caller must ensure that @bvec->bv_page is not a highmem page.
+ */
+static inline void *bvec_virt(struct bio_vec *bvec)
+{
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(PageHighMem(bvec->bv_page));
+ return page_address(bvec->bv_page) + bvec->bv_offset;
+}
+
#endif /* __LINUX_BVEC_H */
--
2.30.2
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