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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2020-07-01 10:59:44 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2020-07-01 07:27:24 -0600
commited00aabd5eb9fb44d6aff1173234a2e911b9fead (patch)
treeb0044db8ec43d14994c5e5669cb3f0f0c25b9860 /Documentation/block
parentc62b37d96b6eb3ec5ae4cbe00db107bf15aebc93 (diff)
block: rename generic_make_request to submit_bio_noacct
generic_make_request has always been very confusingly misnamed, so rename it to submit_bio_noacct to make it clear that it is submit_bio minus accounting and a few checks. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.rst b/Documentation/block/biodoc.rst
index 267384159bf7..afda5e30a82e 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.rst
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ Now the generic block layer performs partition-remapping early and thus
provides drivers with a sector number relative to whole device, rather than
having to take partition number into account in order to arrive at the true
sector number. The routine blk_partition_remap() is invoked by
-generic_make_request even before invoking the queue specific ->submit_bio,
+submit_bio_noacct even before invoking the queue specific ->submit_bio,
so the i/o scheduler also gets to operate on whole disk sector numbers. This
should typically not require changes to block drivers, it just never gets
to invoke its own partition sector offset calculations since all bios