[dm-devel] [PATCH v10 8/8] block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()

Tejun Heo tj at kernel.org
Thu Sep 6 23:46:03 UTC 2012


On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:35:02PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
> set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
> __bio_clone().
> 
> This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add
> bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of
> the functionality the last patch adedd.
> 
> This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet at google.com>
> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
> CC: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de>
> CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk at redhat.com>
> CC: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh at panasas.com>
> CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff at garzik.org>
> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at redhat.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun




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