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    xfs: introduce xfs_buf_submit[_wait] · 595bff75
    Dave Chinner authored
    There is a lot of cookie-cutter code that looks like:
    
    	if (shutdown)
    		handle buffer error
    	xfs_buf_iorequest(bp)
    	error = xfs_buf_iowait(bp)
    	if (error)
    		handle buffer error
    
    spread through XFS. There's significant complexity now in
    xfs_buf_iorequest() to specifically handle this sort of synchronous
    IO pattern, but there's all sorts of nasty surprises in different
    error handling code dependent on who owns the buffer references and
    the locks.
    
    Pull this pattern into a single helper, where we can hide all the
    synchronous IO warts and hence make the error handling for all the
    callers much saner. This removes the need for a special extra
    reference to protect IO completion processing, as we can now hold a
    single reference across dispatch and waiting, simplifying the sync
    IO smeantics and error handling.
    
    In doing this, also rename xfs_buf_iorequest to xfs_buf_submit and
    make it explicitly handle on asynchronous IO. This forces all users
    to be switched specifically to one interface or the other and
    removes any ambiguity between how the interfaces are to be used. It
    also means that xfs_buf_iowait() goes away.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
    595bff75
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