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block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support

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This implements functionality to pass down or insert a barrier
in a queue, without having data attached to it. The ->prepare_flush_fn()
infrastructure from data barriers are reused to provide this
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe 2007-09-27 13:01:25 +02:00
commit bf2de6f5a4
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include/linux/blkdev.h
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@ -540,6 +540,7 @@ enum {
#define blk_barrier_rq(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_HARDBARRIER)
#define blk_fua_rq(rq) ((rq)->cmd_flags & REQ_FUA)
#define blk_bidi_rq(rq) ((rq)->next_rq != NULL)
#define blk_empty_barrier(rq) (blk_barrier_rq(rq) && blk_fs_request(rq) && !(rq)->hard_nr_sectors)
#define list_entry_rq(ptr) list_entry((ptr), struct request, queuelist)