block: support large requests in blk_rq_map_user_iov
This patch adds support for larger requests in blk_rq_map_user_iov by allowing it to build multiple bios for a request. This functionality used to exist for the non-vectored blk_rq_map_user in the past, and this patch reuses the existing functionality for it on the unmap side, which stuck around. Thanks to the iov_iter API supporting multiple bios is fairly trivial, as we can just iterate the iov until we've consumed the whole iov_iter. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reported-by: Jeff Lien <Jeff.Lien@hgst.com> Tested-by: Jeff Lien <Jeff.Lien@hgst.com> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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