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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2022-02-02 19:01:09 +0300
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2022-02-04 17:43:18 +0300
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block: pass a block_device to bio_clone_fast
Pass a block_device to bio_clone_fast and __bio_clone_fast and give the functions more suitable names. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220202160109.108149-14-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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@@ -663,11 +663,6 @@ to i/o submission, if the bio fields are likely to be accessed after the
i/o is issued (since the bio may otherwise get freed in case i/o completion
happens in the meantime).
-The bio_clone_fast() routine may be used to duplicate a bio, where the clone
-shares the bio_vec_list with the original bio (i.e. both point to the
-same bio_vec_list). This would typically be used for splitting i/o requests
-in lvm or md.
-
3.2 Generic bio helper Routines
-------------------------------