block: Document the bio splitting functions

Since what the bio splitting functions do is nontrivial, document these
functions.

Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

2 files changed, 45 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index 299a0e7651ec..0fff4eb9eb1e 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1842,8 +1842,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_endio);
  * @bio, and updates @bio to represent the remaining sectors.
  *
  * Unless this is a discard request the newly allocated bio will point
- * to @bio's bi_io_vec; it is the caller's responsibility to ensure that
- * @bio is not freed before the split.
+ * to @bio's bi_io_vec. It is the caller's responsibility to ensure that
+ * neither @bio nor @bs are freed before the split bio.
  */
 struct bio *bio_split(struct bio *bio, int sectors,
                       gfp_t gfp, struct bio_set *bs)
diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index 8344d94f13e0..51ed971709c3 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -195,6 +195,25 @@ static bool bvec_split_segs(const struct request_queue *q,
         return !!len;
 }
 
+/**
+ * blk_bio_segment_split - split a bio in two bios
+ * @q:    [in] request queue pointer
+ * @bio:  [in] bio to be split
+ * @bs:   [in] bio set to allocate the clone from
+ * @segs: [out] number of segments in the bio with the first half of the sectors
+ *
+ * Clone @bio, update the bi_iter of the clone to represent the first sectors
+ * of @bio and update @bio->bi_iter to represent the remaining sectors. The
+ * following is guaranteed for the cloned bio:
+ * - That it has at most get_max_io_size(@q, @bio) sectors.
+ * - That it has at most queue_max_segments(@q) segments.
+ *
+ * Except for discard requests the cloned bio will point at the bi_io_vec of
+ * the original bio. It is the responsibility of the caller to ensure that the
+ * original bio is not freed before the cloned bio. The caller is also
+ * responsible for ensuring that @bs is only destroyed after processing of the
+ * split bio has finished.
+ */
 static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q,
                                          struct bio *bio,
                                          struct bio_set *bs,
@@ -251,6 +270,19 @@ split:
         return bio_split(bio, sectors, GFP_NOIO, bs);
 }
 
+/**
+ * __blk_queue_split - split a bio and submit the second half
+ * @q:       [in] request queue pointer
+ * @bio:     [in, out] bio to be split
+ * @nr_segs: [out] number of segments in the first bio
+ *
+ * Split a bio into two bios, chain the two bios, submit the second half and
+ * store a pointer to the first half in *@bio. If the second bio is still too
+ * big it will be split by a recursive call to this function. Since this
+ * function may allocate a new bio from @q->bio_split, it is the responsibility
+ * of the caller to ensure that @q is only released after processing of the
+ * split bio has finished.
+ */
 void __blk_queue_split(struct request_queue *q, struct bio **bio,
                 unsigned int *nr_segs)
 {
@@ -295,6 +327,17 @@ void __blk_queue_split(struct request_queue *q, struct bio **bio,
         }
 }
 
+/**
+ * blk_queue_split - split a bio and submit the second half
+ * @q:   [in] request queue pointer
+ * @bio: [in, out] bio to be split
+ *
+ * Split a bio into two bios, chains the two bios, submit the second half and
+ * store a pointer to the first half in *@bio. Since this function may allocate
+ * a new bio from @q->bio_split, it is the responsibility of the caller to
+ * ensure that @q is only released after processing of the split bio has
+ * finished.
+ */
 void blk_queue_split(struct request_queue *q, struct bio **bio)
 {
         unsigned int nr_segs;