block: add bio_kmalloc()
Not all callers need (or want!) the mempool backing guarentee, it
essentially means that you can only use bio_alloc() for short allocations
and not for preallocating some bio's at setup or init time.
So add bio_kmalloc() which does the same thing as bio_alloc(), except
it just uses kmalloc() as the backing instead of the bio mempools.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 7af373f..6520ee1 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@
extern void bioset_free(struct bio_set *);
extern struct bio *bio_alloc(gfp_t, int);
+extern struct bio *bio_kmalloc(gfp_t, int);
extern struct bio *bio_alloc_bioset(gfp_t, int, struct bio_set *);
extern void bio_put(struct bio *);
extern void bio_free(struct bio *, struct bio_set *);