block: provide a direct_make_request helper
This helper allows reinserting a bio into a new queue without much
overhead, but requires all queue limits to be the same for the upper
and lower queues, and it does not provide any recursion preventions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 7263702..eda3d25 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -920,6 +920,7 @@ static inline void rq_flush_dcache_pages(struct request *rq)
extern int blk_register_queue(struct gendisk *disk);
extern void blk_unregister_queue(struct gendisk *disk);
extern blk_qc_t generic_make_request(struct bio *bio);
+extern blk_qc_t direct_make_request(struct bio *bio);
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 *);