From 4246a0b63bd8f56a1469b12eafeb875b1041a451 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:29:37 +0200 Subject: block: add a bi_error field to struct bio Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO: (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds of error returns. So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> --- drivers/block/ps3vram.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/block/ps3vram.c') diff --git a/drivers/block/ps3vram.c b/drivers/block/ps3vram.c index b1612eb16172..49b4706b162c 100644 --- a/drivers/block/ps3vram.c +++ b/drivers/block/ps3vram.c @@ -593,7 +593,8 @@ out: next = bio_list_peek(&priv->list); spin_unlock_irq(&priv->lock); - bio_endio(bio, error); + bio->bi_error = error; + bio_endio(bio); return next; } -- cgit v1.2.3