From patchwork Mon Nov 26 02:17:18 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ming Lei X-Patchwork-Id: 10697465 X-Patchwork-Delegate: snitzer@redhat.com Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FAE01591 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19EF29A9B for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id E38A629A5A; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7523029A5A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F7F715552; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from colo-mx.corp.redhat.com (colo-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.20]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDB4F5DA2A; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com (lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.19.33]) by colo-mx.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B4D181B9EB; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by lists01.pubmisc.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id wAQ2LFTL020523 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 21:21:15 -0500 Received: by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) id 7D6261974D; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:15 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: dm-devel@redhat.com Received: from localhost (ovpn-8-19.pek2.redhat.com [10.72.8.19]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E58419744; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Ming Lei To: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 10:17:18 +0800 Message-Id: <20181126021720.19471-19-ming.lei@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20181126021720.19471-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> References: <20181126021720.19471-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.23 X-loop: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Mike Snitzer , linux-mm@kvack.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, Christoph Hellwig , Sagi Grimberg , "Darrick J . Wong" , Omar Sandoval , cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Shaohua Li , Kent Overstreet , Boaz Harrosh , Gao Xiang , Coly Li , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Bob Peterson , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Dave Chinner , David Sterba , Ming Lei , linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: [dm-devel] [PATCH V12 18/20] block: document usage of bio iterator helpers X-BeenThere: dm-devel@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: junk List-Id: device-mapper development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.14 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.29]); Mon, 26 Nov 2018 02:21:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Now multi-page bvec is supported, some helpers may return page by page, meantime some may return segment by segment, this patch documents the usage. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval --- Documentation/block/biovecs.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt b/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt index 25689584e6e0..ce6eccaf5df7 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt @@ -117,3 +117,28 @@ Other implications: size limitations and the limitations of the underlying devices. Thus there's no need to define ->merge_bvec_fn() callbacks for individual block drivers. + +Usage of helpers: +================= + +* The following helpers whose names have the suffix of "_all" can only be used +on non-BIO_CLONED bio. They are usually used by filesystem code. Drivers +shouldn't use them because the bio may have been split before it reached the +driver. + + bio_for_each_segment_all() + bio_first_bvec_all() + bio_first_page_all() + bio_last_bvec_all() + +* The following helpers iterate over single-page segment. The passed 'struct +bio_vec' will contain a single-page IO vector during the iteration + + bio_for_each_segment() + bio_for_each_segment_all() + +* The following helpers iterate over multi-page bvec. The passed 'struct +bio_vec' will contain a multi-page IO vector during the iteration + + bio_for_each_bvec() + rq_for_each_bvec()