[PATCH v5 1/8] iov: Introduce iov_memset()

[Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>]

Add a helper to set a range of bytes across an IO vector to a given
value, similar to memset() but operating over scatter-gather buffers.
It skips to the given offset and fills across iovec entries up to the
requested length.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
---
 iov.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 iov.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/iov.c b/iov.c
index ae0743931d18..0188acdf5eba 100644
--- a/iov.c
+++ b/iov.c
@@ -170,6 +170,33 @@ size_t iov_truncate(struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt, size_t size)
 	return i;
 }
 
+/**
+ * iov_memset() - Set bytes of an IO vector to a given value
+ * @iov:	IO vector
+ * @iov_cnt:	Number of elements in @iov
+ * @offset:	Byte offset in the iovec at which to start
+ * @c:		Byte value to fill with
+ * @length:	Number of bytes to set
+ * 		Will write less than @length bytes if it runs out of space in
+ * 		the iov
+ */
+/* cppcheck-suppress unusedFunction */
+void iov_memset(const struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt, size_t offset, int c,
+		size_t length)
+{
+	size_t i;
+
+	i = iov_skip_bytes(iov, iov_cnt, offset, &offset);
+
+	for ( ; i < iov_cnt && length; i++) {
+		size_t n = MIN(iov[i].iov_len - offset, length);
+
+		memset((char *)iov[i].iov_base + offset, c, n);
+		offset = 0;
+		length -= n;
+	}
+}
+
 /**
  * iov_tail_prune() - Remove any unneeded buffers from an IOV tail
  * @tail:	IO vector tail (modified)
diff --git a/iov.h b/iov.h
index b4e50b0fca5a..d295d05b3bab 100644
--- a/iov.h
+++ b/iov.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ size_t iov_to_buf(const struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt,
 		  size_t offset, void *buf, size_t bytes);
 size_t iov_size(const struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt);
 size_t iov_truncate(struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt, size_t size);
+void iov_memset(const struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt, size_t offset, int c,
+		size_t length);
 
 /*
  * DOC: Theory of Operation, struct iov_tail
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