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block: add a lower-level bio_add_page interface
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fri, 1 Jun 2018 16:03:05 +0000 (09:03 -0700)
committerDarrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Sat, 2 Jun 2018 01:37:32 +0000 (18:37 -0700)
commit0e55d15e30bd405871c63dd8f5b53c0d67d85dea
treeb86c0cb774082d38cb98b791a4d18b8efc4360b7
parent64bf7b074aa9df091e2db86274880f4880bb6684
block: add a lower-level bio_add_page interface

For the upcoming removal of buffer heads in XFS we need to keep track of
the number of outstanding writeback requests per page.  For this we need
to know if bio_add_page merged a region with the previous bvec or not.
Instead of adding additional arguments this refactors bio_add_page to
be implemented using three lower level helpers which users like XFS can
use directly if they care about the merge decisions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
block/bio.c
include/linux/bio.h