The iov functions can be useful to other code as well.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
iov_to_buf() puts the buffer contents in the iov in a linearized buffer.
iov_size() gets the length of the contents in the iov.
The iov_to_buf() function is the memcpy_to_iovec() function that was
used in virtio-ballon.c.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The virtio-net code uses iov_fill() which fills an iov from a linear
buffer. The virtio-serial-bus code does something similar in an
open-coded function.
Create a new iov.c file that has iov_from_buf().
Convert virtio-net and virtio-serial-bus over to use this functionality.
virtio-net used ints to hold sizes, the new function is going to use
size_t types.
Later commits will add the opposite functionality -- going from an iov
to a linear buffer.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
