When doing internal commands within LightNVM, we may form it as a bio. It can then use the existing infrastructure for handling bio's. Expose init_request_from_bio as blk_init_request_from_bio and allow requests to initialized from bio's.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <[email protected]> --- block/blk-core.c | 6 ++++++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c index bf930f4..53f9488 100644 --- a/block/blk-core.c +++ b/block/blk-core.c @@ -1546,6 +1546,12 @@ void init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio) blk_rq_bio_prep(req->q, req, bio); } +void blk_init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio) +{ + init_request_from_bio(req, bio); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_init_request_from_bio); + void blk_queue_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio) { const bool sync = !!(bio->bi_rw & REQ_SYNC); diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index 518b465..75296c0 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -823,6 +823,7 @@ extern int sg_scsi_ioctl(struct request_queue *, struct gendisk *, fmode_t, struct scsi_ioctl_command __user *); extern void blk_queue_bio(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio); +extern void blk_init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio); /* * A queue has just exitted congestion. Note this in the global counter of -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
