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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2015-07-20 15:29:37 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2015-07-29 08:55:15 -0600
commit4246a0b63bd8f56a1469b12eafeb875b1041a451 (patch)
tree3281bb158d658ef7f208ad380c0ecee600a5ab5e /include/linux/blk_types.h
parent0034af036554c39eefd14d835a8ec3496ac46712 (diff)
block: add a bi_error field to struct bio
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO: (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds of error returns. So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/blk_types.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/blk_types.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index 7303b3405520..6164fb8a817b 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ struct page;
struct block_device;
struct io_context;
struct cgroup_subsys_state;
-typedef void (bio_end_io_t) (struct bio *, int);
+typedef void (bio_end_io_t) (struct bio *);
typedef void (bio_destructor_t) (struct bio *);
/*
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ struct bio {
struct bvec_iter bi_iter;
+ int bi_error;
/* Number of segments in this BIO after
* physical address coalescing is performed.
*/
@@ -111,7 +112,6 @@ struct bio {
/*
* bio flags
*/
-#define BIO_UPTODATE 0 /* ok after I/O completion */
#define BIO_SEG_VALID 1 /* bi_phys_segments valid */
#define BIO_CLONED 2 /* doesn't own data */
#define BIO_BOUNCED 3 /* bio is a bounce bio */