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From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>, Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>,
	Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
	"open list:BCACHE BLOCK LAYER CACHE"
	<linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:SOFTWARE RAID Multiple Disks SUPPORT"
	<linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 22/60] block: comment on bio_alloc_pages()
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 16:08:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1477728600-12938-23-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1477728600-12938-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>

This patch adds comment on usage of bio_alloc_pages(),
also comments on one special case of bch_data_verify().

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
---
 block/bio.c               | 4 +++-
 drivers/md/bcache/debug.c | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index db85c5753a76..a49d1d89a85c 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -907,7 +907,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_advance);
  * @bio: bio to allocate pages for
  * @gfp_mask: flags for allocation
  *
- * Allocates pages up to @bio->bi_vcnt.
+ * Allocates pages up to @bio->bi_vcnt, and this function should only
+ * be called on a new initialized bio, which means no page isn't added
+ * to the bio via bio_add_page() yet.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, -ENOMEM on failure. On failure, any allocated pages are
  * freed.
diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c b/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c
index 430f3050663c..71a9f05918eb 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c
@@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ void bch_data_verify(struct cached_dev *dc, struct bio *bio)
 	struct bio_vec bv, cbv;
 	struct bvec_iter iter, citer = { 0 };
 
+	/*
+	 * Once multipage bvec is supported, the bio_clone()
+	 * has to make sure page count in this bio can be held
+	 * in the new cloned bio because each single page need
+	 * to assign to each bvec of the new bio.
+	 */
 	check = bio_clone(bio, GFP_NOIO);
 	if (!check)
 		return;
-- 
2.7.4

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-29  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-29  8:07 [PATCH 00/60] block: support multipage bvec Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 02/60] block drivers: convert to bio_init_with_vec_table() Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 06/60] bcache: debug: avoid to access .bi_io_vec directly Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 07/60] dm: crypt: use bio_add_page() Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 08/60] dm: use bvec iterator helpers to implement .get_page and .next_page Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 09/60] dm: dm.c: replace 'bio->bi_vcnt == 1' with !bio_multiple_segments Ming Lei
2016-10-31 15:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-31 22:59     ` Ming Lei
2016-11-02  3:09     ` Kent Overstreet
2016-11-02  7:56       ` Ming Lei
2016-11-02 14:24         ` Mike Snitzer
2016-11-02 23:47           ` Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 21/60] bcache: comment on direct access to bvec table Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 24/60] md: set NO_MP for request queue of md Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 29/60] dm: limit the max bio size as BIO_SP_MAX_SECTORS << SECTOR_SHIFT Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 30/60] bcache: set flag of QUEUE_FLAG_SPLIT_MP Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 39/60] bcache: debug: switch to bio_clone_sp() Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 57/60] bcache: convert to bio_for_each_segment_all_rd() Ming Lei
2016-10-29  8:08 ` [PATCH 58/60] dm-crypt: " Ming Lei
     [not found] ` <1477728600-12938-24-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
2016-10-29 15:29   ` [PATCH 23/60] block: introduce flag QUEUE_FLAG_NO_MP Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-29 22:20     ` Ming Lei
2016-10-31 15:25 ` [PATCH 00/60] block: support multipage bvec Christoph Hellwig
2016-10-31 22:52   ` Ming Lei

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