static int rd_build_device_space(struct rd_dev *rd_dev)
static int rd_allocate_sgl_table(struct rd_dev *rd_dev, struct rd_dev_sg_table *sg_table,
				 u32 total_sg_needed, unsigned char init_payload)
 {
	u32 i = 0, j, page_offset = 0, sg_per_table;
 	u32 max_sg_per_table = (RD_MAX_ALLOCATION_SIZE /
 				sizeof(struct scatterlist));
 	struct page *pg;
 	struct scatterlist *sg;
	unsigned char *p;
 
 	while (total_sg_needed) {
 		sg_per_table = (total_sg_needed > max_sg_per_table) ?
			max_sg_per_table : total_sg_needed;

		sg = kzalloc(sg_per_table * sizeof(struct scatterlist),
				GFP_KERNEL);
		if (!sg) {
			pr_err("Unable to allocate scatterlist array"
				" for struct rd_dev\n");
			return -ENOMEM;
		}

		sg_init_table(sg, sg_per_table);

		sg_table[i].sg_table = sg;
		sg_table[i].rd_sg_count = sg_per_table;
		sg_table[i].page_start_offset = page_offset;
		sg_table[i++].page_end_offset = (page_offset + sg_per_table)
						- 1;

		for (j = 0; j < sg_per_table; j++) {
			pg = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
			if (!pg) {
				pr_err("Unable to allocate scatterlist"
					" pages for struct rd_dev_sg_table\n");
				return -ENOMEM;
 			}
 			sg_assign_page(&sg[j], pg);
 			sg[j].length = PAGE_SIZE;

			p = kmap(pg);
			memset(p, init_payload, PAGE_SIZE);
			kunmap(pg);
 		}
 
 		page_offset += sg_per_table;
 		total_sg_needed -= sg_per_table;
 	}
 
	return 0;
}

static int rd_build_device_space(struct rd_dev *rd_dev)
{
	struct rd_dev_sg_table *sg_table;
	u32 sg_tables, total_sg_needed;
	u32 max_sg_per_table = (RD_MAX_ALLOCATION_SIZE /
				sizeof(struct scatterlist));
	int rc;

	if (rd_dev->rd_page_count <= 0) {
		pr_err("Illegal page count: %u for Ramdisk device\n",
		       rd_dev->rd_page_count);
		return -EINVAL;
	}

	/* Don't need backing pages for NULLIO */
	if (rd_dev->rd_flags & RDF_NULLIO)
		return 0;

	total_sg_needed = rd_dev->rd_page_count;

	sg_tables = (total_sg_needed / max_sg_per_table) + 1;

	sg_table = kzalloc(sg_tables * sizeof(struct rd_dev_sg_table), GFP_KERNEL);
	if (!sg_table) {
		pr_err("Unable to allocate memory for Ramdisk"
		       " scatterlist tables\n");
		return -ENOMEM;
	}

	rd_dev->sg_table_array = sg_table;
	rd_dev->sg_table_count = sg_tables;

	rc = rd_allocate_sgl_table(rd_dev, sg_table, total_sg_needed, 0x00);
	if (rc)
		return rc;

 	pr_debug("CORE_RD[%u] - Built Ramdisk Device ID: %u space of"
		 " %u pages in %u tables\n", rd_dev->rd_host->rd_host_id,
		 rd_dev->rd_dev_id, rd_dev->rd_page_count,
		 rd_dev->sg_table_count);
 
 	return 0;
 }

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