[PATCH 1/8] lib: Introduce sgl_alloc() and sgl_free()

[Bart Van Assche]

On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 16:52 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 10/12/2017 04:45 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > +++ b/include/linux/sgl_alloc.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> > +#ifndef _SGL_ALLOC_H_
> > +#define _SGL_ALLOC_H_
> > +
> > +#include <linux/types.h> /* bool, gfp_t */
> > +
> > +struct scatterlist;
> > +
> > +struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc_order(unsigned long long length,
> > +				    unsigned int order, unsigned int *nent_p,
> > +				    gfp_t gfp, bool chainable);
> > +struct scatterlist *sgl_alloc(unsigned long long length, unsigned int *nent_p,
> > +			      gfp_t gfp);
> > +void sgl_free_order(struct scatterlist *sgl, int order);
> > +void sgl_free(struct scatterlist *sgl);
> > +
> > +#endif /* _SGL_ALLOC_H_ */
> 
> Should this just go into linux/scatterlist.h instead of creating a new header
> file?

That's something I can change. I don't have a strong opinion about whether
these declarations should go into a new header file or into linux/scatterlist.h.

Bart.