lib/scatterlist: Introduce and export __sg_alloc_table_from_pages
Drivers like i915 benefit from being able to control the maxium
size of the sg coalesced segment while building the scatter-
gather list.
Introduce and export the __sg_alloc_table_from_pages function
which will allow it that control.
v2: Reorder parameters. (Chris Wilson)
v3: Fix incomplete reordering in v2.
v4: max_segment needs to be page aligned.
v5: Rebase.
v6: Rebase.
v7: Fix spelling in commit and mention max segment size in
__sg_alloc_table_from_pages kerneldoc. (Andrew Morton)
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170803091351.23594-1-tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com
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