@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ mapped to bio structures.
2.2 The bio struct
The bio structure uses a vector representation pointing to an array of tuples
-of <page, offset, len> to describe the i/o buffer, and has various other
+of <pfn, offset, len> to describe the i/o buffer, and has various other
fields describing i/o parameters and state that needs to be maintained for
performing the i/o.
@@ -418,11 +418,14 @@ Notice that this representation means that a bio has no virtual address
mapping at all (unlike buffer heads).
struct bio_vec {
- struct page *bv_page;
+ unsigned long *bv_pfn;
unsigned short bv_len;
unsigned short bv_offset;
};
+You should not access the bv_pfn fields directly but use helpers to get the
+corresponding struct page as bv_pfn can encode more than page pfn value.
+
/*
* main unit of I/O for the block layer and lower layers (ie drivers)
*/
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
* was unsigned short, but we might as well be ready for > 64kB I/O pages
*/
struct bio_vec {
- struct page *bv_page;
+ unsigned long bv_pfn;
unsigned int bv_len;
unsigned int bv_offset;
};
@@ -51,14 +51,19 @@ struct bvec_iter_all {
unsigned done;
};
+static inline unsigned long page_to_bvec_pfn(struct page *page)
+{
+ return page ? page_to_pfn(page) : -1UL;
+}
+
static inline struct page *bvec_page(const struct bio_vec *bvec)
{
- return bvec->bv_page;
+ return bvec->bv_pfn == -1UL ? NULL : pfn_to_page(bvec->bv_pfn);
}
static inline void bvec_set_page(struct bio_vec *bvec, struct page *page)
{
- bvec->bv_page = page;
+ bvec->bv_pfn = page_to_bvec_pfn(page);
}
static inline struct page *bvec_nth_page(struct page *page, int idx)
@@ -70,11 +75,15 @@ static inline struct page *bvec_nth_page(struct page *page, int idx)
* various member access, note that bio_data should of course not be used
* on highmem page vectors
*/
-#define BIO_VEC_INIT(p, l, o) {.bv_page = (p), .bv_len = (l), .bv_offset = (o)}
+#define BIO_VEC_INIT(p, l, o) {.bv_pfn = page_to_bvec_pfn(p), \
+ .bv_len = (l), .bv_offset = (o)}
#define __bvec_iter_bvec(bvec, iter) (&(bvec)[(iter).bi_idx])
/* multi-page (mp_bvec) helpers */
+#define mp_bvec_iter_pfn(bvec, iter) \
+ ((__bvec_iter_bvec((bvec), (iter)))->bv_pfn)
+
#define mp_bvec_iter_page(bvec, iter) \
(bvec_page(__bvec_iter_bvec((bvec), (iter))))
@@ -90,7 +99,7 @@ static inline struct page *bvec_nth_page(struct page *page, int idx)
#define mp_bvec_iter_bvec(bvec, iter) \
((struct bio_vec) { \
- .bv_page = mp_bvec_iter_page((bvec), (iter)), \
+ .bv_pfn = mp_bvec_iter_pfn((bvec), (iter)), \
.bv_len = mp_bvec_iter_len((bvec), (iter)), \
.bv_offset = mp_bvec_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)), \
})
@@ -100,16 +109,20 @@ static inline struct page *bvec_nth_page(struct page *page, int idx)
(mp_bvec_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)) % PAGE_SIZE)
#define bvec_iter_len(bvec, iter) \
- min_t(unsigned, mp_bvec_iter_len((bvec), (iter)), \
+ min_t(unsigned, mp_bvec_iter_len((bvec), (iter)), \
PAGE_SIZE - bvec_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)))
#define bvec_iter_page(bvec, iter) \
- bvec_nth_page(mp_bvec_iter_page((bvec), (iter)), \
+ bvec_nth_page(mp_bvec_iter_page((bvec), (iter)), \
mp_bvec_iter_page_idx((bvec), (iter)))
+#define bvec_iter_pfn(bvec, iter) \
+ (mp_bvec_iter_pfn((bvec), (iter)) + \
+ mp_bvec_iter_page_idx((bvec), (iter)))
+
#define bvec_iter_bvec(bvec, iter) \
((struct bio_vec) { \
- .bv_page = bvec_iter_page((bvec), (iter)), \
+ .bv_pfn = bvec_iter_pfn((bvec), (iter)), \
.bv_len = bvec_iter_len((bvec), (iter)), \
.bv_offset = bvec_iter_offset((bvec), (iter)), \
})