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authorPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2009-11-04 16:10:35 +0900
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2009-11-04 16:10:35 +0900
commitb6d0137d6156db54a9e6ff74458ed4342a45abb5 (patch)
treeae4139b2af5af7e382208645d4b66ff184c1e53a /fs/bio.c
parent5c1a56b5f616f7063f91eb85f0ea209658f387dc (diff)
parent51bb296b09a83ee1aae025778db38f9d2cc7bb1a (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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-rw-r--r--fs/bio.c28
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 402cb84..12da5db 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -325,8 +325,16 @@ static void bio_fs_destructor(struct bio *bio)
* @gfp_mask: allocation mask to use
* @nr_iovecs: number of iovecs
*
- * Allocate a new bio with @nr_iovecs bvecs. If @gfp_mask
- * contains __GFP_WAIT, the allocation is guaranteed to succeed.
+ * bio_alloc will allocate a bio and associated bio_vec array that can hold
+ * at least @nr_iovecs entries. Allocations will be done from the
+ * fs_bio_set. Also see @bio_alloc_bioset and @bio_kmalloc.
+ *
+ * If %__GFP_WAIT is set, then bio_alloc will always be able to allocate
+ * a bio. This is due to the mempool guarantees. To make this work, callers
+ * must never allocate more than 1 bio at a time from this pool. Callers
+ * that need to allocate more than 1 bio must always submit the previously
+ * allocated bio for IO before attempting to allocate a new one. Failure to
+ * do so can cause livelocks under memory pressure.
*
* RETURNS:
* Pointer to new bio on success, NULL on failure.
@@ -350,21 +358,13 @@ static void bio_kmalloc_destructor(struct bio *bio)
}
/**
- * bio_alloc - allocate a bio for I/O
+ * bio_kmalloc - allocate a bio for I/O using kmalloc()
* @gfp_mask: the GFP_ mask given to the slab allocator
* @nr_iovecs: number of iovecs to pre-allocate
*
* Description:
- * bio_alloc will allocate a bio and associated bio_vec array that can hold
- * at least @nr_iovecs entries. Allocations will be done from the
- * fs_bio_set. Also see @bio_alloc_bioset.
- *
- * If %__GFP_WAIT is set, then bio_alloc will always be able to allocate
- * a bio. This is due to the mempool guarantees. To make this work, callers
- * must never allocate more than 1 bio at a time from this pool. Callers
- * that need to allocate more than 1 bio must always submit the previously
- * allocated bio for IO before attempting to allocate a new one. Failure to
- * do so can cause livelocks under memory pressure.
+ * Allocate a new bio with @nr_iovecs bvecs. If @gfp_mask contains
+ * %__GFP_WAIT, the allocation is guaranteed to succeed.
*
**/
struct bio *bio_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nr_iovecs)
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(zero_fill_bio);
*
* Description:
* Put a reference to a &struct bio, either one you have gotten with
- * bio_alloc or bio_get. The last put of a bio will free it.
+ * bio_alloc, bio_get or bio_clone. The last put of a bio will free it.
**/
void bio_put(struct bio *bio)
{
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