[PATCH] Cleanup blk_rq_map_* interfaces
Change the blk_rq_map_user() and blk_rq_map_kern() interface to require
a previously allocated request to be passed in. This is both more efficient
for multiple iterations of mapping data to the same request, and it is also
a much nicer API.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c
index 681871c..93c4ca8 100644
--- a/drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/scsi_ioctl.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
struct gendisk *bd_disk, struct sg_io_hdr *hdr)
{
unsigned long start_time;
- int reading, writing;
+ int reading, writing, ret;
struct request *rq;
struct bio *bio;
char sense[SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE];
@@ -255,14 +255,17 @@
reading = 1;
break;
}
+ }
- rq = blk_rq_map_user(q, writing ? WRITE : READ, hdr->dxferp,
- hdr->dxfer_len);
+ rq = blk_get_request(q, writing ? WRITE : READ, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!rq)
+ return -ENOMEM;
- if (IS_ERR(rq))
- return PTR_ERR(rq);
- } else
- rq = blk_get_request(q, READ, __GFP_WAIT);
+ if (reading || writing) {
+ ret = blk_rq_map_user(q, rq, hdr->dxferp, hdr->dxfer_len);
+ if (ret)
+ goto out;
+ }
/*
* fill in request structure
@@ -321,11 +324,13 @@
}
if (blk_rq_unmap_user(rq, bio, hdr->dxfer_len))
- return -EFAULT;
+ ret = -EFAULT;
/* may not have succeeded, but output values written to control
* structure (struct sg_io_hdr). */
- return 0;
+out:
+ blk_put_request(rq);
+ return ret;
}
#define OMAX_SB_LEN 16 /* For backward compatibility */
