block: add bio_kmalloc()

Not all callers need (or want!) the mempool backing guarentee, it
essentially means that you can only use bio_alloc() for short allocations
and not for preallocating some bio's at setup or init time.

So add bio_kmalloc() which does the same thing as bio_alloc(), except
it just uses kmalloc() as the backing instead of the bio mempools.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 7af373f253dc..6520ee1a3f6d 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ extern struct bio_set *bioset_create(int, int);
 extern void bioset_free(struct bio_set *);
 
 extern struct bio *bio_alloc(gfp_t, int);
+extern struct bio *bio_kmalloc(gfp_t, int);
 extern struct bio *bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_t, int, struct bio_set *);
 extern void bio_put(struct bio *);
 extern void bio_free(struct bio *, struct bio_set *);