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[10/11] block: remove bio_clone() and all references.

Message ID 149266673026.27388.11044384829130065082.stgit@noble (mailing list archive)
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NeilBrown April 20, 2017, 5:38 a.m. UTC 
bio_clone() is no longer used.
Only bio_clone_bioset() or bio_clone_fast().
This is for the best, as bio_clone() used fs_bio_set,
and filesystems are unlikely to want to use bio_clone().

So remove bio_clone() and all references.
This includes a fix to some incorrect documentation.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
---
 Documentation/block/biodoc.txt |    2 +-
 block/bio.c                    |    2 +-
 block/blk-merge.c              |    6 +++---
 drivers/md/md.c                |    2 +-
 include/linux/bio.h            |    5 -----
 5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig April 21, 2017, 11:32 a.m. UTC | #1 
Looks fine,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Ming Lei April 21, 2017, 3:43 p.m. UTC | #2 
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:38 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> wrote:
> bio_clone() is no longer used.
> Only bio_clone_bioset() or bio_clone_fast().
> This is for the best, as bio_clone() used fs_bio_set,
> and filesystems are unlikely to want to use bio_clone().
>
> So remove bio_clone() and all references.
> This includes a fix to some incorrect documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

Thanks,
Ming Lei
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 01ddeaf64b0f..9490f2845f06 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@  to i/o submission, if the bio fields are likely to be accessed after the
 i/o is issued (since the bio may otherwise get freed in case i/o completion
 happens in the meantime).
 
-The bio_clone() routine may be used to duplicate a bio, where the clone
+The bio_clone_fast() routine may be used to duplicate a bio, where the clone
 shares the bio_vec_list with the original bio (i.e. both point to the
 same bio_vec_list). This would typically be used for splitting i/o requests
 in lvm or md.
diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index b8e304015dc8..9ef1da1830e4 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(zero_fill_bio);
  *
  * Description:
  *   Put a reference to a &struct bio, either one you have gotten with
- *   bio_alloc, bio_get or bio_clone. The last put of a bio will free it.
+ *   bio_alloc, bio_get or bio_clone_*. The last put of a bio will free it.
  **/
 void bio_put(struct bio *bio)
 {
diff --git a/block/blk-merge.c b/block/blk-merge.c
index 51c84540d3bb..e7862e9dcc39 100644
--- a/block/blk-merge.c
+++ b/block/blk-merge.c
@@ -115,13 +115,13 @@  static struct bio *blk_bio_segment_split(struct request_queue *q,
 		 * With arbitrary bio size, the incoming bio may be very
 		 * big. We have to split the bio into small bios so that
 		 * each holds at most BIO_MAX_PAGES bvecs because
-		 * bio_clone() can fail to allocate big bvecs.
+		 * bio_clone_bioset() can fail to allocate big bvecs.
 		 *
-		 * Those drivers which will need to use bio_clone()
+		 * Those drivers which will need to use bio_clone_bioset()
 		 * should tell us in some way.  For now, impose the
 		 * BIO_MAX_PAGES limit on all queues.
 		 *
-		 * TODO: handle users of bio_clone() differently.
+		 * TODO: handle users of bio_clone_bioset() differently.
 		 */
 		if (bvecs++ >= BIO_MAX_PAGES)
 			goto split;
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index de37ace40470..8b415e13d2f8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@  static int start_readonly;
 static bool create_on_open = true;
 
 /* bio_clone_mddev
- * like bio_clone, but with a local bio set
+ * like bio_clone_bioset, but with a local bio set
  */
 
 struct bio *bio_alloc_mddev(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nr_iovecs,
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 2eb8bfae5276..5227850592cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -394,11 +394,6 @@  static inline struct bio *bio_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int nr_iovecs)
 	return bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_mask, nr_iovecs, fs_bio_set);
 }
 
-static inline struct bio *bio_clone(struct bio *bio, gfp_t gfp_mask)
-{
-	return bio_clone_bioset(bio, gfp_mask, fs_bio_set);
-}
-
 static inline struct bio *bio_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int nr_iovecs)
 {
 	return bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_mask, nr_iovecs, NULL);