Recent qemu has added a VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH flag to advertise that the
virtual disk has a volatile write cache that needs to be flushed. In case
we see this feature implement tell the Linux block layer about the fact
and use the new VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH to flush the cache when required. This
allows for an correct and simple implementation of write barriers.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Virtio IDs are spread all over the tree which makes assigning new IDs
bothersome. Putting them together should make the process less error-prone.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
I've been doing this for years, and akpm picked me up on it about 12
months ago. lguest partly serves as example code, so let's do it Right.
Also, remove two unused fields in struct vblk_info in the example launcher.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
This patch extracts the opaque data from pci i/o
region 0 via the added VIRTIO_BLK_F_IDENTIFY
field. By convention this data takes the form of
that returned by an ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command,
however the driver (except for structure size)
makes no interpretation of the data. The structure
data is copied wholesale to userspace via a
HDIO_GET_IDENTITY ioctl command (eg: hdparm -i <dev>).
Signed-off-by: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Add support for SG_IO passthru to virtio_blk. We add the scsi command
block after the normal outhdr, and the scsi inhdr with full status
information aswell as the sense buffer before the regular inhdr.
[hch: forward ported, added the VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI flags, some comments
and tested the whole beast]
[axboe: updated to use ->resid and not dual-path the byte count]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (+ checkpatch.pl tweak)
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
fix the following 'make headers_check' warning:
usr/include/linux/virtio_blk.h:21: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Currently virtio_blk assumes a 512 byte hard sector size. This can cause
trouble / performance issues if the backing has a different block size
(like a file on an ext3 file system formatted with 4k block size or a dasd).
Lets add a feature flag that tells the guest to use a different hard sector
size than 512 byte.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We want others to implement and use virtio, so it makes sense to BSD
license the non-__KERNEL__ parts of the headers to make this crystal
clear.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Since commit 72e61eb40b (virtio: change config
to guest endian) config space is no longer fixed endian.
Lets change the virtio_blk_config variables.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Hello Rusty,
sometimes it is useful to share a disk (e.g. usr). To avoid file system
corruption, the disk should be mounted read-only in that case. This patch
adds a new feature flag, that allows the host to specify, if the disk should
be considered read-only.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rather than faking up some geometry, allow the backend to push the disk
geometry via virtio pci config option. Keep the old geo code around for
compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (modified to single struct)
Ron Minnich points out that a struct containing a char is not always
sizeof(char); simplest to remove the structure to avoid confusion.
Cc: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This field has been unused since an older version of virtio. Remove
it now before we freeze the ABI.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au.
Previously we used a type/len pair within the config space, but this
seems overkill. We now simply define a structure which represents the
layout in the config space: the config space can now only be extended
at the end.
The main driver-visible changes:
1) We indicate what fields are present with an explicit feature bit.
2) Virtqueues are explicitly numbered, and not in the config space.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The block driver uses scatter-gather lists with sg[0] being the
request information (struct virtio_blk_outhdr) with the type, sector
and inbuf id. The next N sg entries are the bio itself, then the last
sg is the status byte. Whether the N entries are in or out depends on
whether it's a read or a write.
We accept the normal (SCSI) ioctls: they get handed through to the other
side which can then handle it or reply that it's unsupported. It's
not clear that this actually works in general, since I don't know
if blk_pc_request() requests have an accurate rq_data_dir().
Although we try to reply -ENOTTY on unsupported commands, ioctl(fd,
CDROMEJECT) returns success to userspace. This needs a separate
patch.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
