Re: [RFC PATCH v4 1/3] block: export bio_map_kern()

[Damien Le Moal]

On 2021/01/04 19:48, SelvaKumar S wrote:
> Export bio_map_kern() so that copy offload emulation can use
> it to add vmalloced memory to bio.
> 
> Signed-off-by: SelvaKumar S <selvakuma.s1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  block/blk-map.c        | 3 ++-
>  include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-map.c b/block/blk-map.c
> index 21630dccac62..50d61475bb68 100644
> --- a/block/blk-map.c
> +++ b/block/blk-map.c
> @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static void bio_map_kern_endio(struct bio *bio)
>   *	Map the kernel address into a bio suitable for io to a block
>   *	device. Returns an error pointer in case of error.
>   */
> -static struct bio *bio_map_kern(struct request_queue *q, void *data,
> +struct bio *bio_map_kern(struct request_queue *q, void *data,
>  		unsigned int len, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  {
>  	unsigned long kaddr = (unsigned long)data;
> @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ static struct bio *bio_map_kern(struct request_queue *q, void *data,
>  	bio->bi_end_io = bio_map_kern_endio;
>  	return bio;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(bio_map_kern);

Simple copy support is a block layer code, so you I do not think you need this.
You only need to remove the static declaration of the function.

>  
>  static void bio_copy_kern_endio(struct bio *bio)
>  {
> diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> index 070de09425ad..81f9e7bec16c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> @@ -936,6 +936,8 @@ extern int blk_rq_map_user(struct request_queue *, struct request *,
>  			   struct rq_map_data *, void __user *, unsigned long,
>  			   gfp_t);
>  extern int blk_rq_unmap_user(struct bio *);
> +extern struct bio *bio_map_kern(struct request_queue *q, void *data,
> +				unsigned int len, gfp_t gfp_mask);
>  extern int blk_rq_map_kern(struct request_queue *, struct request *, void *, unsigned int, gfp_t);
>  extern int blk_rq_map_user_iov(struct request_queue *, struct request *,
>  			       struct rq_map_data *, const struct iov_iter *,
> 


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research