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| author | Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> | 2012-09-27 12:45:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2012-09-27 12:45:28 +0200 |
| commit | 2e484610296b25f0a04b516bc144a00731d1d845 (patch) | |
| tree | d45467ec0b7c2446652e685b270427183471a5ad /lib | |
| parent | c2b1ad800b66f62105a7fd250604d72e07202e66 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2e484610296b25f0a04b516bc144a00731d1d845.tar.gz | |
scatterlist: add sg_nents
Useful helper to know the number of entries in scatterlist. Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/scatterlist.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/scatterlist.c b/lib/scatterlist.c index fadae774a20c..1bf60efb5e02 100644 --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -39,6 +39,28 @@ struct scatterlist *sg_next(struct scatterlist *sg) EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_next); /** + * sg_nents - return total count of entries in scatterlist + * @sg: The scatterlist + * + * Description: + * Allows to know how many entries are in sg, taking into acount + * chaining as well + * + **/ +int sg_nents(struct scatterlist *sg) +{ + int nents = 0; + while (sg) { + nents++; + sg = sg_next(sg); + } + + return nents; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(sg_nents); + + +/** * sg_last - return the last scatterlist entry in a list * @sgl: First entry in the scatterlist * @nents: Number of entries in the scatterlist |