For the next patches providing the selftest, it is required to insert
interval values directly in the buffer in order to check the correctness of
the code. Encapsulate the code doing that in a always inline function in
order to reuse it in the test code.

No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527205521.12091-6-daniel.lezcano@linaro.org