How to clone buffer_head structure for different cpu cores?

[sunmikro]

Dear All,

I have a buffer_head object (struct buffer_head) in my driver code. I want to take a copy of this structure object which is independent of address space. In other words how to create per cpu buffer_head structure objects.

Example:

struct buffer_head *bh1, *bh2;

I have some data in bh1 object. I want a copy of this data in bh2 also. This copy doesn´t mean that bh2 is another reference for bh1. It should be totally independent of bh1 in terms of memory allocation.

Please give me your suggestions...

Regards,
Sundar

[trutheality]

You mean make a deep copy?
Just allocate new memory and copy all of the struct elements one by one.

[sunmikro]

I tried that, but i am getting "Segmentation fault". Actually i have a block device and i want to copy the contents from the block device to one temproray buffer for some operations. In most of the driver and file system code, kernel developers are using buffer_head structure to do this.

In the sameway i am also trying the buffer_head structure. Here the ordinary memory allocation and memcopy will not help. We need to find some other way to allocate space for buffer_head structure and also the copy operation between two buffer_head structures.

If you have any suggetions to do this, please help me.

Thanks