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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2021-01-26 15:52:35 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2021-01-27 09:51:48 -0700
commitc6bf3f0e25f4c0f0ecce6cf8d1c589bd9d74d3cf (patch)
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parent3175199ab0ac8c874ec25c6bf169f74888917435 (diff)
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block: use an on-stack bio in blkdev_issue_flush
There is no point in allocating memory for a synchronous flush. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/blk-flush.c17
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/block/blk-flush.c b/block/blk-flush.c
index 76c1624cb06c..7942ca6ed321 100644
--- a/block/blk-flush.c
+++ b/block/blk-flush.c
@@ -432,23 +432,18 @@ void blk_insert_flush(struct request *rq)
/**
* blkdev_issue_flush - queue a flush
* @bdev: blockdev to issue flush for
- * @gfp_mask: memory allocation flags (for bio_alloc)
*
* Description:
* Issue a flush for the block device in question.
*/
-int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *bdev, gfp_t gfp_mask)
+int blkdev_issue_flush(struct block_device *bdev)
{
- struct bio *bio;
- int ret = 0;
+ struct bio bio;
- bio = bio_alloc(gfp_mask, 0);
- bio_set_dev(bio, bdev);
- bio->bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH;
-
- ret = submit_bio_wait(bio);
- bio_put(bio);
- return ret;
+ bio_init(&bio, NULL, 0);
+ bio_set_dev(&bio, bdev);
+ bio.bi_opf = REQ_OP_WRITE | REQ_PREFLUSH;
+ return submit_bio_wait(&bio);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_issue_flush);