[PATCH] Cleanup blk_rq_map_* interfaces

Change the blk_rq_map_user() and blk_rq_map_kern() interface to require
a previously allocated request to be passed in. This is both more efficient
for multiple iterations of mapping data to the same request, and it is also
a much nicer API.

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

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 67339bc5f6bc..fc0dce078616 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -558,10 +558,9 @@ extern void blk_sync_queue(struct request_queue *q);
 extern void __blk_stop_queue(request_queue_t *q);
 extern void blk_run_queue(request_queue_t *);
 extern void blk_queue_activity_fn(request_queue_t *, activity_fn *, void *);
-extern struct request *blk_rq_map_user(request_queue_t *, int, void __user *, unsigned int);
-extern int blk_rq_unmap_user(struct request *, struct bio *, unsigned int);
-extern struct request *blk_rq_map_kern(request_queue_t *, int, void *,
-                                        unsigned int, unsigned int);
+extern int blk_rq_map_user(request_queue_t *, struct request *, void __user *, unsigned int);
+extern int blk_rq_unmap_user(struct bio *, unsigned int);
+extern int blk_rq_map_kern(request_queue_t *, struct request *, void *, unsigned int, unsigned int);
 extern int blk_execute_rq(request_queue_t *, struct gendisk *, struct request *);
 
 static inline request_queue_t *bdev_get_queue(struct block_device *bdev)