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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2017-08-23 19:10:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2017-08-23 12:49:55 -0600 |
| commit | 74d46992e0d9dee7f1f376de0d56d31614c8a17a (patch) | |
| tree | 399c316bb960541135e557bc1765caeec6d00084 /include/linux/blk_types.h | |
| parent | c2ee070fb00365d7841f6661dcdc7fbe6620bdf8 (diff) | |
block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).
For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.
Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/blk_types.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blk_types.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h index d2eb87c84d82..a2d2aa709cef 100644 --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ struct blk_issue_stat { */ struct bio { struct bio *bi_next; /* request queue link */ - struct block_device *bi_bdev; + struct gendisk *bi_disk; + u8 bi_partno; blk_status_t bi_status; unsigned int bi_opf; /* bottom bits req flags, * top bits REQ_OP. Use |