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    block: Generic bio chaining · 196d38bc
    Kent Overstreet authored
    
    
    This adds a generic mechanism for chaining bio completions. This is
    going to be used for a bio_split() replacement, and it turns out to be
    very useful in a fair amount of driver code - a fair number of drivers
    were implementing this in their own roundabout ways, often painfully.
    
    Note that this means it's no longer to call bio_endio() more than once
    on the same bio! This can cause problems for drivers that save/restore
    bi_end_io. Arguably they shouldn't be saving/restoring bi_end_io at all
    - in all but the simplest cases they'd be better off just cloning the
    bio, and immutable biovecs is making bio cloning cheaper. But for now,
    we add a bio_endio_nodec() for these cases.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
    Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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