lib/scatterlist: introduce sg_pcopy_from_buffer() and sg_pcopy_to_buffer()

The only difference between sg_pcopy_{from,to}_buffer() and
sg_copy_{from,to}_buffer() is an additional argument that specifies the
number of bytes to skip the SG list before copying.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@freescale.com>
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/scatterlist.h b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
index 26806775b11b..adae88f5b0ab 100644
--- a/include/linux/scatterlist.h
+++ b/include/linux/scatterlist.h
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ size_t sg_copy_from_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
 size_t sg_copy_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
                          void *buf, size_t buflen);
 
+size_t sg_pcopy_from_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
+                            void *buf, size_t buflen, off_t skip);
+size_t sg_pcopy_to_buffer(struct scatterlist *sgl, unsigned int nents,
+                          void *buf, size_t buflen, off_t skip);
+
 /*
  * Maximum number of entries that will be allocated in one piece, if
  * a list larger than this is required then chaining will be utilized.