operations and flags

name of the probe point

points to the device object which contains the partition (when bio structure represents a partition)

number of segments after physical and DMA remapping hardware coalescing is performed

points to the start sector of the partition structure of the device

see below BIO_UPTODATE 0 ok after I/O completion BIO_RW_BLOCK 1 RW_AHEAD set, and read/write would block BIO_EOF 2 out-out-bounds error BIO_SEG_VALID 3 nr_hw_seg valid BIO_CLONED 4 doesn't own data BIO_BOUNCED 5 bio is a bounce bio BIO_USER_MAPPED 6 contains user pages BIO_EOPNOTSUPP 7 not supported

bio vector count which represents number of array element (page, offset, length) which make up this I/O request

block device name

target block device

beginning sector for the entire bio

offset into the bio vector array

i-node number of the mapped file

number of segments in this bio after physical address coalescing is performed

binary trace for read/write request

total size in bytes