How to read a sector using a bio request in Linux kernel

Question

How do I create my own bio request to read a sector from the disk drive ?

I am trying the following but it freezes the system.

static void read_bio()         


        

Answer 1

It is old question, but anyway here is the code for reading, I hope it will help someone:

int readPage(struct block_device *device, sector_t sector, int size,
     struct page *page)
{
    int ret;
    struct completion event;
    struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1);
    bio->bi_bdev = device;
    bio->bi_sector = sector;
    bio_add_page(bio, page, size, 0);
    init_completion(&event);
    bio->bi_private = &event;
    bio->bi_end_io = readComplete;
    submit_bio(READ | REQ_SYNC, bio);
    wait_for_completion(&event);
    ret = test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags);
    bio_put(bio);
    return ret;
}

And for writing:

void writePage(struct block_device *device,
           sector_t sector, int size, struct page *page)
{
    struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1);
    bio->bi_bdev = device;
    bio->bi_sector = sector;
    bio_add_page(bio, page, size, 0);
    bio->bi_end_io = writeComplete;
    submit_bio(WRITE_FLUSH_FUA, bio);
}

page can be allocated with alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL). Also for changing data in page use page_address(page). It returns void* so you can interpret that pointer as whatever you want.