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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10 8/8] block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:35:02PM -0700, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> Previously, there was bio_clone() but it only allocated from the fs bio
> set; as a result various users were open coding it and using
> __bio_clone().
>
> This changes bio_clone() to become bio_clone_bioset(), and then we add
> bio_clone() and bio_clone_kmalloc() as wrappers around it, making use of
> the functionality the last patch adedd.
>
> This will also help in a later patch changing how bio cloning works.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
> CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
> CC: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
> CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

--
tejun


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