new helper: iov_iter_get_pages_alloc()
same as iov_iter_get_pages(), except that pages array is allocated (kmalloc if possible, vmalloc if that fails) and left for caller to free. Lustre and NFS ->direct_IO() switched to it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ void iov_iter_init(struct iov_iter *i, int direction, const struct iovec *iov,
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unsigned long nr_segs, size_t count);
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ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, struct page **pages,
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size_t maxsize, size_t *start);
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ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i, struct page ***pages,
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size_t maxsize, size_t *start);
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int iov_iter_npages(const struct iov_iter *i, int maxpages);
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static inline size_t iov_iter_count(struct iov_iter *i)
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