block: Document how blk_update_request() handles RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD requests
The payload of struct request is stored in the request.bio chain if the RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD flag is not set and in request.special_vec if RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD has been set. However, blk_update_request() iterates over req->bio whether or not RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD has been set. Additionally, the RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD flag is ignored by blk_rq_bytes() which means that the value returned by that function is incorrect if the RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD flag has been set. It is not clear to me whether this is an oversight or whether this happened on purpose. Anyway, document that it is known that both functions ignore RQF_SPECIAL_PAYLOAD. See also commit f9d03f96 ("block: improve handling of the magic discard payload"). Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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