block: Introduce blk_get_request_flags()
A side effect of this patch is that the GFP mask that is passed to
several allocation functions in the legacy block layer is changed
from GFP_KERNEL into __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Tested-by: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 1437ef4..1af5ddd 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -927,6 +927,9 @@ extern void blk_rq_init(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq);
extern void blk_init_request_from_bio(struct request *req, struct bio *bio);
extern void blk_put_request(struct request *);
extern void __blk_put_request(struct request_queue *, struct request *);
+extern struct request *blk_get_request_flags(struct request_queue *,
+ unsigned int op,
+ unsigned int flags);
extern struct request *blk_get_request(struct request_queue *, unsigned int op,
gfp_t gfp_mask);
extern void blk_requeue_request(struct request_queue *, struct request *);