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block: provide a direct_make_request helper 

This helper allows reinserting a bio into a new queue without much
overhead, but requires all queue limits to be the same for the upper
and lower queues, and it does not provide any recursion preventions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Christoph Hellwig 2017-11-02 21:29:50 +03:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 96222bcc73
commit f421e1d9ad
2 changed files with 35 additions and 0 deletions
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block/blk-core.c
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@ -2243,6 +2243,40 @@ out:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_make_request);
/**
* direct_make_request - hand a buffer directly to its device driver for I/O
* @bio: The bio describing the location in memory and on the device.
*
* This function behaves like generic_make_request(), but does not protect
* against recursion. Must only be used if the called driver is known
* to not call generic_make_request (or direct_make_request) again from
* its make_request function. (Calling direct_make_request again from
* a workqueue is perfectly fine as that doesn't recurse).
*/
blk_qc_t direct_make_request(struct bio *bio)
{
struct request_queue *q = bio->bi_disk->queue;
bool nowait = bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT;
blk_qc_t ret;
if (!generic_make_request_checks(bio))
return BLK_QC_T_NONE;
if (unlikely(blk_queue_enter(q, nowait))) {
if (nowait && !blk_queue_dying(q))
bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_AGAIN;
else
bio->bi_status = BLK_STS_IOERR;
bio_endio(bio);
return BLK_QC_T_NONE;
}
ret = q->make_request_fn(q, bio);
blk_queue_exit(q);
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(direct_make_request);
/**
* submit_bio - submit a bio to the block device layer for I/O
* @bio: The &struct bio which describes the I/O

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include/linux/blkdev.h
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@ -920,6 +920,7 @@ static inline void rq_flush_dcache_pages(struct request *rq)
extern int blk_register_queue(struct gendisk *disk);
extern void blk_unregister_queue(struct gendisk *disk);
extern blk_qc_t generic_make_request(struct bio *bio);
extern blk_qc_t direct_make_request(struct bio *bio);
extern void blk_rq_init(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq);
extern void blk_init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio);
extern void blk_put_request(struct request *);