void blk_dev_init(void)
{
	int i;

	for (i=0 ; i<NR_REQUEST ; i++) {
		request[i].dev = -1;
		request[i].next = NULL;
	}
}

/*
 * NR_REQUEST is the number of entries in the request-queue.
 * NOTE that writes may use only the low 2/3 of these: reads
 * take precedence.
 *
 * 32 seems to be a reasonable number: enough to get some benefit
 * from the elevator-mechanism, but not so much as to lock a lot of
 * buffers when they are in the queue. 64 seems to be too many (easily
 * long pauses in reading when heavy writing/syncing is going on)
 */
#define NR_REQUEST	32

/*
 * Ok, this is an expanded form so that we can use the same
 * request for paging requests when that is implemented. In
 * paging, 'bh' is NULL, and 'waiting' is used to wait for
 * read/write completion.
 * 进程要想与块设备进行沟通，必须经过主机内存中的缓冲区，
 * request就是操作系统管理缓冲区中的缓冲块与块设备上逻辑块之间读写关系的数据结构
 */
struct request {
	int dev;		/* -1 if no request */
	int cmd;		/* READ or WRITE */
	int errors;
	unsigned long sector;
	unsigned long nr_sectors;
	char * buffer;
	struct task_struct * waiting;
	struct buffer_head * bh;
	struct request * next;
};

/*
 * The request-struct contains all necessary data
 * to load a nr of sectors into memory
 */
struct request request[NR_REQUEST];

struct buffer_head {
	char * b_data;			/* pointer to data block (1024 bytes) */
	unsigned long b_blocknr;	/* block number */
	unsigned short b_dev;		/* device (0 = free) */
	unsigned char b_uptodate;
	unsigned char b_dirt;		/* 0-clean,1-dirty */
	unsigned char b_count;		/* users using this block */
	unsigned char b_lock;		/* 0 - ok, 1 -locked */
	struct task_struct * b_wait;
	struct buffer_head * b_prev;
	struct buffer_head * b_next;
	struct buffer_head * b_prev_free;
	struct buffer_head * b_next_free;
};

struct task_struct {
/* these are hardcoded - don't touch */
	long state;	/* -1 unrunnable, 0 runnable, >0 stopped */
	long counter;
	long priority;
	long signal;
	struct sigaction sigaction[32];
	long blocked;	/* bitmap of masked signals */
/* various fields */
	int exit_code;
	unsigned long start_code,end_code,end_data,brk,start_stack;
	long pid,father,pgrp,session,leader;
	unsigned short uid,euid,suid;
	unsigned short gid,egid,sgid;
	long alarm;
	long utime,stime,cutime,cstime,start_time;
	unsigned short used_math;
/* file system info */
	int tty;		/* -1 if no tty, so it must be signed */
	unsigned short umask;
	struct m_inode * pwd;
	struct m_inode * root;
	struct m_inode * executable;
	unsigned long close_on_exec;
	struct file * filp[NR_OPEN];
/* ldt for this task 0 - zero 1 - cs 2 - ds&ss */
	struct desc_struct ldt[3];
/* tss for this task */
	struct tss_struct tss;
};