<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >blk_cleanup_queue</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Linux Kernel API" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Block Devices" HREF="c11504.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Block Devices" HREF="c11504.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="blk_queue_headactive" HREF="r11537.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >The Linux Kernel API</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c11504.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="r11537.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN11506" ></A ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >blk_cleanup_queue</SPAN ></SPAN ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN11510" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >blk_cleanup_queue -- release a <SPAN CLASS="STRUCTNAME" >request_queue_t</SPAN > when it is no longer needed </DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN11514" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><DIV CLASS="FUNCSYNOPSIS" ><A NAME="AEN11516" ></A ><P ></P ><P ><CODE ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >void <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >blk_cleanup_queue </TT ></CODE >(request_queue_t * <TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >q</I ></TT >);</CODE ></P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN11522" ></A ><H2 >Arguments</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="PARAMETER" ><I >q</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > the request queue to be released </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN11530" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > blk_cleanup_queue is the pair to <TT CLASS="FUNCTION" >blk_init_queue</TT >. It should be called when a request queue is being released; typically when a block device is being de-registered. Currently, its primary task it to free all the &struct request structures that were allocated to the queue. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN11534" ></A ><H2 >Caveat</H2 ><P > Hopefully the low level driver will have finished any outstanding requests first... </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c11504.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="r11537.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Block Devices</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c11504.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><SPAN CLASS="phrase" ><SPAN CLASS="PHRASE" >blk_queue_headactive</SPAN ></SPAN ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >