[PATCH] Add blk_rq_map_kern()

Add blk_rq_map_kern which takes a kernel buffer and maps it into
a request and bio. This can be used by the dm hw_handlers, old
sg_scsi_ioctl, and one day scsi special requests so all requests
comming into scsi will have bios. All requests having bios
should allow scsi to use scatter lists for all IO and allow it
to use block layer functions.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 038022763f09..1dd2bc2e84ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -282,6 +282,8 @@ extern int bio_get_nr_vecs(struct block_device *);
 extern struct bio *bio_map_user(struct request_queue *, struct block_device *,
                                 unsigned long, unsigned int, int);
 extern void bio_unmap_user(struct bio *);
+extern struct bio *bio_map_kern(struct request_queue *, void *, unsigned int,
+                                unsigned int);
 extern void bio_set_pages_dirty(struct bio *bio);
 extern void bio_check_pages_dirty(struct bio *bio);
 extern struct bio *bio_copy_user(struct request_queue *, unsigned long, unsigned int, int);