Re: [PATCH] block: Export blk_alloc_discard_bio

[Jens Axboe]

On 9/3/24 1:39 AM, Luca Stefani wrote:
> The fs trim loops over ranges and sends discard requests, some ranges
> can be large so it's all transparently handled by blkdev_issue_discard()
> and processed in smaller chunks.
> 
> To support cancellation (or suspend) requests we need to insert checks
> into the the loop, exporting the symbol allows to reimplement
> such loop with the desired behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Stefani <luca.stefani.ge1@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  block/blk-lib.c        | 1 +
>  include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
> index 4c9f20a689f7..ebaef47d8ce7 100644
> --- a/block/blk-lib.c
> +++ b/block/blk-lib.c
> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ struct bio *blk_alloc_discard_bio(struct block_device *bdev,
>  	cond_resched();
>  	return bio;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_alloc_discard_bio);
>  
>  int __blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
>  		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct bio **biop)
> diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> index b7664d593486..f3631044d905 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
> @@ -1088,6 +1088,8 @@ static inline long nr_blockdev_pages(void)
>  
>  extern void blk_io_schedule(void);
>  
> +struct bio *blk_alloc_discard_bio(struct block_device *bdev,
> +		sector_t *sector, sector_t *nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask);
>  int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
>  		sector_t nr_sects, gfp_t gfp_mask);
>  int __blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,

Since blk_alloc_discard_bio() is already defined in a header (otherwise
it would've been static and your export symbol above would have failed
miserably), why add it to another header?

-- 
Jens Axboe