From patchwork Wed Nov 21 03:23:25 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ming Lei X-Patchwork-Id: 10691807 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 CCEFE16B1 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBBCD2B4D4 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id AF2682B4E7; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:29:06 +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=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D442B4D4 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728383AbeKUOBa (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:01:30 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51938 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727004AbeKUOB3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:01:29 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13802356D3; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (ovpn-8-21.pek2.redhat.com [10.72.8.21]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DC810021B6; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:28:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Ming Lei To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Theodore Ts'o , Omar Sandoval , Sagi Grimberg , Dave Chinner , Kent Overstreet , Mike Snitzer , dm-devel@redhat.com, Alexander Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Shaohua Li , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, David Sterba , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, "Darrick J . Wong" , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Gao Xiang , Christoph Hellwig , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Coly Li , linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, Boaz Harrosh , Bob Peterson , cluster-devel@redhat.com, Ming Lei Subject: [PATCH V11 17/19] block: document usage of bio iterator helpers Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:23:25 +0800 Message-Id: <20181121032327.8434-18-ming.lei@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20181121032327.8434-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> References: <20181121032327.8434-1-ming.lei@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org 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 --- Documentation/block/biovecs.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt b/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt index 25689584e6e0..bb008f7afb05 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biovecs.txt @@ -117,3 +117,27 @@ 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 bvecs. 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 single-page bvecs. The passed 'struct +bio_vec' will contain a single-page IO vector during the iteration + + bio_for_each_bvec()