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| author | Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> | 2012-10-12 15:29:33 -0700 |
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| committer | Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> | 2013-03-23 14:15:27 -0700 |
| commit | 9f060e2231ca96ca94f2ffcff730acd72606b280 (patch) | |
| tree | 4818da8b59010493810e04d7a6273707875dc73c /include/linux/bio.h | |
| parent | 6fda981cafbf908acd11e1e636fec50e99d56a47 (diff) | |
block: Convert integrity to bvec_alloc_bs()
This adds a pointer to the bvec array to struct bio_integrity_payload,
instead of the bvecs always being inline; then the bvecs are allocated
with bvec_alloc_bs().
Changed bvec_alloc_bs() and bvec_free_bs() to take a pointer to a
mempool instead of the bioset, so that bio integrity can use a different
mempool for its bvecs, and thus avoid a potential deadlock.
This is eventually for immutable bio vecs - immutable bvecs aren't
useful if we still have to copy them, hence the need for the pointer.
Less code is always nice too, though.
Also, bio_integrity_alloc() was using fs_bio_set if no bio_set was
specified. This was wrong - using the bio_set doesn't protect us from
memory allocation failures, because we just used kmalloc for the
bio_integrity_payload. But it does introduce the possibility of
deadlock, if for some reason we weren't supposed to be using fs_bio_set.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/bio.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/bio.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h index 81004fdcc277..669b1cb18fee 100644 --- a/include/linux/bio.h +++ b/include/linux/bio.h @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ extern void bio_pair_release(struct bio_pair *dbio); extern struct bio_set *bioset_create(unsigned int, unsigned int); extern void bioset_free(struct bio_set *); +extern mempool_t *biovec_create_pool(struct bio_set *bs, int pool_entries); extern struct bio *bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_t, int, struct bio_set *); extern void bio_put(struct bio *); @@ -288,8 +289,8 @@ extern struct bio *bio_copy_user_iov(struct request_queue *, int, int, gfp_t); extern int bio_uncopy_user(struct bio *); void zero_fill_bio(struct bio *bio); -extern struct bio_vec *bvec_alloc_bs(gfp_t, int, unsigned long *, struct bio_set *); -extern void bvec_free_bs(struct bio_set *, struct bio_vec *, unsigned int); +extern struct bio_vec *bvec_alloc(gfp_t, int, unsigned long *, mempool_t *); +extern void bvec_free(mempool_t *, struct bio_vec *, unsigned int); extern unsigned int bvec_nr_vecs(unsigned short idx); #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP @@ -511,10 +512,11 @@ struct bio_set { unsigned int front_pad; mempool_t *bio_pool; + mempool_t *bvec_pool; #if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY) mempool_t *bio_integrity_pool; + mempool_t *bvec_integrity_pool; #endif - mempool_t *bvec_pool; /* * Deadlock avoidance for stacking block drivers: see comments in |