Both raid1 and raid10 uses bio's bvec table to store pre-allocated
pages, then fetch and add it to bio.
This patch introduces two helpers for dealing with the special case,
like what bio_iov_iter_get_pages() does.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index a86ad62079de..21897cb514af 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -708,4 +708,25 @@ static inline void mddev_clear_unsupported_flags(struct mddev *mddev,
{
mddev->flags &= ~unsupported_flags;
}
+
+/*
+ * Both raid1 and raid10 use bio's bvec table to store the preallocated
+ * pages, so we introduces the following helpers for this kind of usage.
+ *
+ * Actually the usage is a bit similar with bio_iov_iter_get_pages().
+ *
+ * Please make sure .bi_io_vec[idx] points to one unused vector by the
+ * bio.
+ */
+static inline struct page *mdev_get_page_from_bio(struct bio *bio, unsigned idx)
+{
+ return bio->bi_io_vec[idx].bv_page;
+}
+
+static inline void mdev_put_page_to_bio(struct bio *bio, unsigned idx,
+ struct page *page)
+{
+ bio->bi_io_vec[idx].bv_page = page;
+}
+
#endif /* _MD_MD_H */
--
2.7.4
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