[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 05/33] block: Add bio_list_peek()

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Introduce bio_list_peek(), to obtain a pointer to the first bio on the bio_list
without actually removing it from the list. This is needed when you want to
serialize based on the list being empty or not.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe at kernel.dk>
---
 include/linux/bio.h |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bio.h b/include/linux/bio.h
index 7b214fd..618bb7d 100644
--- a/include/linux/bio.h
+++ b/include/linux/bio.h
@@ -590,6 +590,11 @@ static inline void bio_list_merge_head(struct bio_list *bl,
 	bl->head = bl2->head;
 }
 
+static inline struct bio *bio_list_peek(struct bio_list *bl)
+{
+	return bl->head;
+}
+
 static inline struct bio *bio_list_pop(struct bio_list *bl)
 {
 	struct bio *bio = bl->head;
-- 
1.6.2.4