tree 9dee2bc174436072c9e90ffebbe71f47fde63aaf
parent e90abc8ec323c1fd2a25600097ef7ae1e91f39b0
author Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> 1385260455 -0800
committer Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> 1385274836 -0800

block: Generic bio chaining

This adds a generic mechanism for chaining bio completions. This is
going to be used for a bio_split() replacement, and it turns out to be
very useful in a fair amount of driver code - a fair number of drivers
were implementing this in their own roundabout ways, often painfully.

Note that this means it's no longer to call bio_endio() more than once
on the same bio! This can cause problems for drivers that save/restore
bi_end_io. Arguably they shouldn't be saving/restoring bi_end_io at all
- in all but the simplest cases they'd be better off just cloning the
bio, and immutable biovecs is making bio cloning cheaper. But for now,
we add a bio_endio_nodec() for these cases.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>