[PATCH] device-mapper: Record & restore bio state.

Simple functions to record and restore bio state so we can resubmit a bio
that returned an error.

DM multipath (following shortly) uses this.

This patch has it private to device-mapper: is it any use elsewhere?
Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

drivers/md/dm-bio-record.h

+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This file is released under the GPL.
+ */
+
+#ifndef DM_BIO_RECORD_H
+#define DM_BIO_RECORD_H
+
+#include <linux/bio.h>
+
+/*
+ * There are lots of mutable fields in the bio struct that get
+ * changed by the lower levels of the block layer.  Some targets,
+ * such as multipath, may wish to resubmit a bio on error.  The
+ * functions in this file help the target record and restore the
+ * original bio state.
+ */
+struct dm_bio_details {
+	sector_t bi_sector;
+	struct block_device *bi_bdev;
+	unsigned int bi_size;
+	unsigned short bi_idx;
+	unsigned long bi_flags;
+};
+
+static inline void dm_bio_record(struct dm_bio_details *bd, struct bio *bio)
+{
+	bd->bi_sector = bio->bi_sector;
+	bd->bi_bdev = bio->bi_bdev;
+	bd->bi_size = bio->bi_size;
+	bd->bi_idx = bio->bi_idx;
+	bd->bi_flags = bio->bi_flags;
+}
+
+static inline void dm_bio_restore(struct dm_bio_details *bd, struct bio *bio)
+{
+	bio->bi_sector = bd->bi_sector;
+	bio->bi_bdev = bd->bi_bdev;
+	bio->bi_size = bd->bi_size;
+	bio->bi_idx = bd->bi_idx;
+	bio->bi_flags = bd->bi_flags;
+}
+
+#endif