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authorKent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>2012-10-13 02:29:33 +0400
committerKent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>2013-03-24 01:15:27 +0400
commit9f060e2231ca96ca94f2ffcff730acd72606b280 (patch)
tree4818da8b59010493810e04d7a6273707875dc73c /include/linux/bio.h
parent6fda981cafbf908acd11e1e636fec50e99d56a47 (diff)
downloadlinux-9f060e2231ca96ca94f2ffcff730acd72606b280.tar.xz
block: Convert integrity to bvec_alloc_bs()
This adds a pointer to the bvec array to struct bio_integrity_payload, instead of the bvecs always being inline; then the bvecs are allocated with bvec_alloc_bs(). Changed bvec_alloc_bs() and bvec_free_bs() to take a pointer to a mempool instead of the bioset, so that bio integrity can use a different mempool for its bvecs, and thus avoid a potential deadlock. This is eventually for immutable bio vecs - immutable bvecs aren't useful if we still have to copy them, hence the need for the pointer. Less code is always nice too, though. Also, bio_integrity_alloc() was using fs_bio_set if no bio_set was specified. This was wrong - using the bio_set doesn't protect us from memory allocation failures, because we just used kmalloc for the bio_integrity_payload. But it does introduce the possibility of deadlock, if for some reason we weren't supposed to be using fs_bio_set. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> CC: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/bio.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/bio.h8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 81004fdcc277..669b1cb18fee 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ extern void bio_pair_release(struct bio_pair *dbio);
extern struct bio_set *bioset_create(unsigned int, unsigned int);
extern void bioset_free(struct bio_set *);
+extern mempool_t *biovec_create_pool(struct bio_set *bs, int pool_entries);
extern struct bio *bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_t, int, struct bio_set *);
extern void bio_put(struct bio *);
@@ -288,8 +289,8 @@ extern struct bio *bio_copy_user_iov(struct request_queue *,
int, int, gfp_t);
extern int bio_uncopy_user(struct bio *);
void zero_fill_bio(struct bio *bio);
-extern struct bio_vec *bvec_alloc_bs(gfp_t, int, unsigned long *, struct bio_set *);
-extern void bvec_free_bs(struct bio_set *, struct bio_vec *, unsigned int);
+extern struct bio_vec *bvec_alloc(gfp_t, int, unsigned long *, mempool_t *);
+extern void bvec_free(mempool_t *, struct bio_vec *, unsigned int);
extern unsigned int bvec_nr_vecs(unsigned short idx);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
@@ -511,10 +512,11 @@ struct bio_set {
unsigned int front_pad;
mempool_t *bio_pool;
+ mempool_t *bvec_pool;
#if defined(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY)
mempool_t *bio_integrity_pool;
+ mempool_t *bvec_integrity_pool;
#endif
- mempool_t *bvec_pool;
/*
* Deadlock avoidance for stacking block drivers: see comments in