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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-12 06:14:22 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-12 06:14:22 +0400
commit1ce48904285fe4b0298864f9153a8502ebeac35c (patch)
treeffe1e0c31cdea427b48ae4d4d59a96ff9d208f32 /Documentation
parent55982fd184a065b1c69279d29cbc01dbf424d2f4 (diff)
parent780513ecb80ea0934fc6833efc4f5ed9ab4ff9bb (diff)
downloadlinux-1ce48904285fe4b0298864f9153a8502ebeac35c.tar.xz
Merge branch 'block-2.6.24' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'block-2.6.24' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: (37 commits) [BLOCK] Fix failing compile with BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE=n compat_ioctl: move floppy handlers to block/compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: move cdrom handlers to block/compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: move BLKPG handling to block/compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: move hdio calls to block/compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: handle blk_trace ioctls compat_ioctl: add compat_blkdev_driver_ioctl() compat_ioctl: move common block ioctls to compat_blkdev_ioctl Sysace: Don't enable IRQ until after interrupt handler is registered Sysace: sparse fixes Sysace: Minor coding convention fixup drivers/block/umem: use DRIVER_NAME where appropriate drivers/block/umem: trim trailing whitespace drivers/block/umem: minor cleanups drivers/block/umem: use dev_printk() drivers/block/umem: move private include away from include/linux Sysace: Labels in C code should not be indented. Sysace: Add of_platform_bus binding Sysace: Move IRQ handler registration to occur after FSM is initialized Sysace: minor rework and cleanup changes ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/biodoc.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/ioprio.txt11
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 8af392fc6ef0..dc3f49e3e539 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -477,9 +477,9 @@ With this multipage bio design:
the same bi_io_vec array, but with the index and size accordingly modified)
- A linked list of bios is used as before for unrelated merges (*) - this
avoids reallocs and makes independent completions easier to handle.
-- Code that traverses the req list needs to make a distinction between
- segments of a request (bio_for_each_segment) and the distinct completion
- units/bios (rq_for_each_bio).
+- Code that traverses the req list can find all the segments of a bio
+ by using rq_for_each_segment. This handles the fact that a request
+ has multiple bios, each of which can have multiple segments.
- Drivers which can't process a large bio in one shot can use the bi_idx
field to keep track of the next bio_vec entry to process.
(e.g a 1MB bio_vec needs to be handled in max 128kB chunks for IDE)
@@ -664,14 +664,14 @@ in lvm or md.
3.2.1 Traversing segments and completion units in a request
-The macros bio_for_each_segment() and rq_for_each_bio() should be used for
-traversing the bios in the request list (drivers should avoid directly
-trying to do it themselves). Using these helpers should also make it easier
-to cope with block changes in the future.
+The macro rq_for_each_segment() should be used for traversing the bios
+in the request list (drivers should avoid directly trying to do it
+themselves). Using these helpers should also make it easier to cope
+with block changes in the future.
- rq_for_each_bio(bio, rq)
- bio_for_each_segment(bio_vec, bio, i)
- /* bio_vec is now current segment */
+ struct req_iterator iter;
+ rq_for_each_segment(bio_vec, rq, iter)
+ /* bio_vec is now current segment */
I/O completion callbacks are per-bio rather than per-segment, so drivers
that traverse bio chains on completion need to keep that in mind. Drivers
diff --git a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
index 1b930ef5a079..35e516b0b8a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
@@ -86,8 +86,15 @@ extern int sys_ioprio_get(int, int);
#error "Unsupported arch"
#endif
-_syscall3(int, ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio);
-_syscall2(int, ioprio_get, int, which, int, who);
+static inline int ioprio_set(int which, int who, int ioprio)
+{
+ return syscall(__NR_ioprio_set, which, who, ioprio);
+}
+
+static inline int ioprio_get(int which, int who)
+{
+ return syscall(__NR_ioprio_get, which, who);
+}
enum {
IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE,