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The payload of struct request is stored in the request.bio chain if
the RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD flag is not set and in request.special_vec if
RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD has been set. However, blk_update_request()
iterates over req->bio whether or not RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD has been
set. Additionally, the RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD flag is ignored by
blk_rq_bytes() which means that the value returned by that function
is incorrect if the RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD flag has been set. It is not
clear to me whether this is an oversight or whether this happened on
purpose. Anyway, document that it is known that both functions ignore
RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD. See also commit f9d03f96b9 ("block: improve
handling of the magic discard payload").
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.