Re: [PATCH v3 03/16] block: Add bio_reset()

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sun May 27 2012 - 21:23:19 EST


On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:25:26PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Reusing bios is something that's been highly frowned upon in the past,
> but driver code keeps doing it anyways. If it's going to happen anyways,
> we should provide a generic method.
>
> This'll help with getting rid of bi_destructor - drivers/block/pktcdvd.c
> was open coding it, by doing a bio_init() and resetting bi_destructor.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Change-Id: Ib0a43dfcb3f6c22a54da513d4a86be544b5ffd95
> ---
> fs/bio.c | 8 ++++++++
> include/linux/bio.h | 1 +
> include/linux/blk_types.h | 6 ++++++
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
> index 3667cef..240da21 100644
> --- a/fs/bio.c
> +++ b/fs/bio.c
> @@ -259,6 +259,14 @@ void bio_init(struct bio *bio)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_init);
>

Function comment please.

> +void bio_reset(struct bio *bio)
> +{
> + memset(bio, 0, BIO_RESET_BYTES);
> + bio->bi_flags = 1 << BIO_UPTODATE;
> +
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_reset);

--
tejun
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