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Commit 7759eb23 authored by Ming Lei's avatar Ming Lei Committed by Jens Axboe
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block: remove bio_rewind_iter()

It is pointed that bio_rewind_iter() is one very bad API[1]:

1) bio size may not be restored after rewinding

2) it causes some bogus change, such as 5151842b (block: reset
bi_iter.bi_done after splitting bio)

3) rewinding really makes things complicated wrt. bio splitting

4) unnecessary updating of .bi_done in fast path

[1] https://marc.info/?t=153549924200005&r=1&w=2



So this patch takes Kent's suggestion to restore one bio into its original
state via saving bio iterator(struct bvec_iter) in bio_integrity_prep(),
given now bio_rewind_iter() is only used by bio integrity code.

Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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