Thanks for doing this, Ming

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 11:33:35AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> It is pointed that bio_rewind_iter() is one very bad API[1]:
> 
> 1) bio size may not be restored after rewinding
> 
> 2) it causes some bogus change, such as 5151842b9d8732 (block: reset
> bi_iter.bi_done after splitting bio)
> 
> 3) rewinding really makes things complicated wrt. bio splitting
> 
> 4) unnecessary updating of .bi_done in fast path
> 
> [1] https://marc.info/?t=153549924200005&r=1&w=2
> 
> So this patch takes Kent's suggestion to restore one bio into its original
> state via saving bio iterator(struct bvec_iter) in bio_integrity_prep(),
> given now bio_rewind_iter() is only used by bio integrity code.
> 
> Suggested-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <[email protected]>

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