On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 03:10:12PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> iov_tail_drop() discards a header from the iov_tail,
> 
> iov_slice() makes a new iov referencing a subset of the data
> in the original iov.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

For the actual behaviour, couple of cosmetic nits noted below.

> ---
>  iov.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  iov.h |  4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/iov.c b/iov.c
> index 8c63b7ea6e31..d2aca59e42ed 100644
> --- a/iov.c
> +++ b/iov.c
> @@ -156,6 +156,59 @@ size_t iov_size(const struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt)
>  	return len;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * iov_slice -  Make a new iov referencing a subset of the data in the original iov
> + *
> + * @dst_iov:     Pointer to the destination array of struct iovec describing
> + *		 the scatter/gather I/O vector to copy to.
> + * @dst_iov_cnt: Maximum number of elements in the destination iov array.
> + * @iov:	 Pointer to the source array of struct iovec describing
> + *		 the scatter/gather I/O vector to copy from.
> + * @iov_cnt:     Maximum number of elements in the source iov array.
> + * @offset:      Offset within the source iov from where copying should start.
> + * @bytes:	 On input, total number of bytes to copy from @iov to @dst_iov,
> + * 		 if @bytes is NULL, copy all the content of @iov,
> + * 		 on output actual number of bytes copied.
> + *
> + * Returns:      The number of elements successfully copied to the destination
> + *		 iov array, a negative value if there is no enough room in the

s/no/not/

> + *		 destination iov array
> + */
> +/* cppcheck-suppress unusedFunction */
> +int iov_slice(struct iovec *dst_iov, size_t dst_iov_cnt,
> +	      const struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt,
> +	      size_t offset, size_t *bytes)
> +{
> +	unsigned int i, j;
> +	size_t remaining = bytes ? *bytes : SIZE_MAX;
> +
> +	i = iov_skip_bytes(iov, iov_cnt, offset, &offset);
> +
> +	/* copying data */

I think this comment is still a bit misleading.

> +	for (j = 0; i < iov_cnt && j < dst_iov_cnt && remaining; i++) {
> +		size_t len = MIN(remaining, iov[i].iov_len - offset);
> +
> +		dst_iov[j].iov_base = (char *)iov[i].iov_base + offset;
> +		dst_iov[j].iov_len = len;
> +		j++;
> +		remaining -= len;
> +		offset = 0;
> +	}
> +	if (j == dst_iov_cnt) {
> +		if (bytes) {
> +			if (remaining)
> +				return -1;
> +		} else if (i != iov_cnt) {
> +			return -1;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	if (bytes)
> +		*bytes -= remaining;
> +
> +	return j;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * iov_tail_prune() - Remove any unneeded buffers from an IOV tail
>   * @tail:	IO vector tail (modified)
> @@ -191,6 +244,21 @@ size_t iov_tail_size(struct iov_tail *tail)
>  	return iov_size(tail->iov, tail->cnt) - tail->off;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * iov_tail_drop() - Discard a header from an IOV tail
> + * @tail:	IO vector tail
> + * @len:	length to move the head of the tail
> + *
> + * Returns:	true if the tail still contains any bytes, otherwise false
> + */
> +/* cppcheck-suppress unusedFunction */
> +bool iov_tail_drop(struct iov_tail *tail, size_t len)
> +{
> +	tail->off = tail->off + len;
> +
> +	return iov_tail_prune(tail);
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * iov_peek_header_() - Get pointer to a header from an IOV tail
>   * @tail:	IOV tail to get header from
> diff --git a/iov.h b/iov.h
> index 9855bf0c0c32..3f8259aa8d28 100644
> --- a/iov.h
> +++ b/iov.h
> @@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ size_t iov_from_buf(const struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt,
>  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);
> +int  iov_slice(struct iovec *dst_iov, size_t dst_iov_cnt,
> +               const struct iovec *iov, size_t iov_cnt,
> +               size_t offset, size_t *bytes);
>  
>  /*
>   * DOC: Theory of Operation, struct iov_tail
> @@ -72,6 +75,7 @@ struct iov_tail {
>  
>  bool iov_tail_prune(struct iov_tail *tail);
>  size_t iov_tail_size(struct iov_tail *tail);
> +bool iov_tail_drop(struct iov_tail *tail, size_t len);
>  void *iov_peek_header_(struct iov_tail *tail, size_t len, size_t align);
>  void *iov_remove_header_(struct iov_tail *tail, size_t len, size_t align);
>  

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