From: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reusing bios is something that's been highly frowned upon in the past,
but driver code keeps doing it anyways. If it's going to happen anyways,
we should provide a generic method.
This'll help with getting rid of bi_destructor.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/bio.c | 8 ++++++++
include/linux/bio.h | 1 +
include/linux/blk_types.h | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index de0733e..90e4c3a 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -259,6 +259,14 @@ void bio_init(struct bio *bio)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_init);
+void bio_reset(struct bio *bio)
+{
+ memset(bio, 0, BIO_RESET_OFFSET);
+ bio->bi_flags = 1 << BIO_UPTODATE;
+
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_reset);
+
/**
* bio_alloc_bioset - allocate a bio for I/O
* @gfp_mask: the GFP_ mask given to the slab allocator
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index b27f16b..35f7c4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ extern struct bio *bio_clone(struct bio *, gfp_t);
struct bio *bio_clone_kmalloc(struct bio *, gfp_t);
extern void bio_init(struct bio *);
+extern void bio_reset(struct bio *);
extern int bio_add_page(struct bio *, struct page *, unsigned int,unsigned int);
extern int bio_add_pc_page(struct request_queue *, struct bio *, struct page *,
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index dc0e399..4a47783 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ struct bio {
unsigned int bi_seg_front_size;
unsigned int bi_seg_back_size;
+ /*
+ * Everything starting with bi_max_vecs will be preserved by bio_reset()
+ */
+
unsigned int bi_max_vecs; /* max bvl_vecs we can hold */
atomic_t bi_cnt; /* pin count */
@@ -83,6 +87,8 @@ struct bio {
struct bio_vec bi_inline_vecs[0];
};
+#define BIO_RESET_OFFSET offsetof(struct bio, bi_max_vecs)
+
/*
* bio flags
*/
--
1.7.9.rc2
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