util/iov: Make qiov_slice() public

We want to inline qemu_iovec_init_extended() in block/io.c for padding
requests, and having access to qiov_slice() is useful for this.  As a
public function, it is renamed to qemu_iovec_slice().

(We will need to count the number of I/O vector elements of a slice
there, and then later process this slice.  Without qiov_slice(), we
would need to call qemu_iovec_subvec_niov(), and all further
IOV-processing functions may need to skip prefixing elements to
accomodate for a qiov_offset.  Because qemu_iovec_subvec_niov()
internally calls qiov_slice(), we can just have the block/io.c code call
qiov_slice() itself, thus get the number of elements, and also create an
iovec array with the superfluous prefixing elements stripped, so the
following processing functions no longer need to skip them.)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230411173418.19549-2-hreitz@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qemu/iov.h b/include/qemu/iov.h
index 9330746680..46fadfb27a 100644
--- a/include/qemu/iov.h
+++ b/include/qemu/iov.h
@@ -229,6 +229,9 @@ int qemu_iovec_init_extended(
         void *tail_buf, size_t tail_len);
 void qemu_iovec_init_slice(QEMUIOVector *qiov, QEMUIOVector *source,
                            size_t offset, size_t len);
+struct iovec *qemu_iovec_slice(QEMUIOVector *qiov,
+                               size_t offset, size_t len,
+                               size_t *head, size_t *tail, int *niov);
 int qemu_iovec_subvec_niov(QEMUIOVector *qiov, size_t offset, size_t len);
 void qemu_iovec_add(QEMUIOVector *qiov, void *base, size_t len);
 void qemu_iovec_concat(QEMUIOVector *dst,