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bio: add bvec_iter rewind API
authorDmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:31:14 +0000 (11:31 -0700)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 3 Jul 2017 22:56:28 +0000 (16:56 -0600)
commitf9df1cd99ebd82f05e8f5e0aa7e38cb8d3c791d7
treeb5d6222cd50a8e57719e6dbbb57dd5392a07096b
parentb1fb2c52b2d85f51f36f1661409f9aeef94265ff
bio: add bvec_iter rewind API

Some ->bi_end_io handlers (for example: pi_verify or decrypt handlers)
need to know original data vector, but after bio traverse io-stack it may
be advanced, splited and relocated many times so it is hard to guess
original iterator. Let's add 'bi_done' conter which accounts number
of bytes iterator was advanced during it's evolution. Later end_io handler
may easily restore original iterator by rewinding iterator to
iter->bi_done.

Note: this change makes sizeof (struct bvec_iter) multiple to 8

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
[hch: switched to true/false return]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
include/linux/bio.h
include/linux/bvec.h