From cc371e66e340f35eed8dc4651c7c18e754c7fb26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alasdair G Kergon Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:53:43 +0200 Subject: Add bvec_merge_data to handle stacked devices and ->merge_bvec() When devices are stacked, one device's merge_bvec_fn may need to perform the mapping and then call one or more functions for its underlying devices. The following bio fields are used: bio->bi_sector bio->bi_bdev bio->bi_size bio->bi_rw using bio_data_dir() This patch creates a new struct bvec_merge_data holding a copy of those fields to avoid having to change them directly in the struct bio when going down the stack only to have to change them back again on the way back up. (And then when the bio gets mapped for real, the whole exercise gets repeated, but that's a problem for another day...) Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- include/linux/blkdev.h | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h') diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 7ab8acad5b6e..ff9d0bdf2a16 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -254,7 +254,14 @@ typedef int (prep_rq_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct request *); typedef void (unplug_fn) (struct request_queue *); struct bio_vec; -typedef int (merge_bvec_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct bio *, struct bio_vec *); +struct bvec_merge_data { + struct block_device *bi_bdev; + sector_t bi_sector; + unsigned bi_size; + unsigned long bi_rw; +}; +typedef int (merge_bvec_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct bvec_merge_data *, + struct bio_vec *); typedef void (prepare_flush_fn) (struct request_queue *, struct request *); typedef void (softirq_done_fn)(struct request *); typedef int (dma_drain_needed_fn)(struct request *); -- cgit v1.2.2