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authorTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>2008-02-19 05:36:35 -0500
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-02-19 05:36:35 -0500
commit6b00769fe1502b4ad97bb327ef7ac971b208bfb5 (patch)
tree2ffc51176437ebf4f8a4ab13de59a32431043f15 /include/linux/blkdev.h
parent40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa (diff)
block: add request->raw_data_len
With padding and draining moved into it, block layer now may extend requests as directed by queue parameters, so now a request has two sizes - the original request size and the extended size which matches the size of area pointed to by bios and later by sgs. The latter size is what lower layers are primarily interested in when allocating, filling up DMA tables and setting up the controller. Both padding and draining extend the data area to accomodate controller characteristics. As any controller which speaks SCSI can handle underflows, feeding larger data area is safe. So, this patch makes the primary data length field, request->data_len, indicate the size of full data area and add a separate length field, request->raw_data_len, for the unmodified request size. The latter is used to report to higher layer (userland) and where the original request size should be fed to the controller or device. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index e1888cc5b8ae..f1fe9fbf1c0e 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ struct request {
216 unsigned int cmd_len; 216 unsigned int cmd_len;
217 unsigned char cmd[BLK_MAX_CDB]; 217 unsigned char cmd[BLK_MAX_CDB];
218 218
219 unsigned int raw_data_len;
219 unsigned int data_len; 220 unsigned int data_len;
220 unsigned int sense_len; 221 unsigned int sense_len;
221 void *data; 222 void *data;