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4.1 BIO
The data integrity patches add a new field to struct bio when
-CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY is enabled. bio->bi_integrity is a pointer
-to a struct bip which contains the bio integrity payload. Essentially
-a bip is a trimmed down struct bio which holds a bio_vec containing
-the integrity metadata and the required housekeeping information (bvec
-pool, vector count, etc.)
+CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY is enabled. bio_integrity(bio) returns a
+pointer to a struct bip which contains the bio integrity payload.
+Essentially a bip is a trimmed down struct bio which holds a bio_vec
+containing the integrity metadata and the required housekeeping
+information (bvec pool, vector count, etc.)
A kernel subsystem can enable data integrity protection on a bio by
calling bio_integrity_alloc(bio). This will allocate and attach the