Currently xen-blkback passes the logical sector size over xenbus and
xen-blkfront sets up the paravirt disk with that logical block size.
But newer drives usually have the logical sector size set to 512 for
compatibility reasons and would show the actual sector size only in
physical sector size.
This results in the device being partitioned and accessed in dom0 with
the correct sector size, but the guest thinks 512 bytes is the correct
block size. And that results in poor performance.

To fix this, blkback gets modified to pass also physical-sector-size
over xenbus and blkfront to use both values to set up the paravirt
disk. I did not just change the passed in sector-size because I am
not sure having a bigger logical sector size than the physical one
is valid (and that would happen if a newer dom0 kernel hits an older
domU kernel). Also this way a domU set up before should still be
accessible (just some tools might detect the unaligned setup).

[v2: Make xenbus write failure non-fatal]
[v3: Use xenbus_scanf instead of xenbus_gather]
[v4: Rebased against segment changes]
Signed-off-by: NStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The max module parameter (by default 32) is the maximum number of
segments that the frontend will negotiate with the backend for indirect
descriptors.  Higher value means more potential throughput but more
memory usage. The backend picks the minimum of the frontend and its
default backend value.
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

In blkif_queue_request blkfront iterates over the scatterlist in order
to set the segments of the request, and in blkif_completion blkfront
iterates over the raw request, which makes it hard to know the exact
position of the source and destination memory positions.

This can be solved by allocating a scatterlist for each request, that
will be keep until the request is finished, allowing us to copy the
data back to the original memory without having to iterate over the
raw request.

Oracle-Bug: 16660413 - LARGE ASYNCHRONOUS READS APPEAR BROKEN ON 2.6.39-400
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: NAnne Milicia <anne.milicia@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Indirect descriptors introduce a new block operation
(BLKIF_OP_INDIRECT) that passes grant references instead of segments
in the request. This grant references are filled with arrays of
blkif_request_segment_aligned, this way we can send more segments in a
request.

The proposed implementation sets the maximum number of indirect grefs
(frames filled with blkif_request_segment_aligned) to 256 in the
backend and 32 in the frontend. The value in the frontend has been
chosen experimentally, and the backend value has been set to a sane
value that allows expanding the maximum number of indirect descriptors
in the frontend if needed.

The migration code has changed from the previous implementation, in
which we simply remapped the segments on the shared ring. Now the
maximum number of segments allowed in a request can change depending
on the backend, so we have to requeue all the requests in the ring and
in the queue and split the bios in them if they are bigger than the
new maximum number of segments.

[v2: Fixed minor comments by Konrad.
[v1: Added padding to make the indirect request 64bit aligned.
 Added some BUGs, comments; fixed number of indirect pages in
 blkif_get_x86_{32/64}_req. Added description about the indirect operation
 in blkif.h]
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[v3: Fixed spaces and tabs mix ups]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

We already have the frame (pfn of the grant page) stored inside struct
grant, so there's no need to keep an aditional list of mapped frames
for a specific request. This reduces memory usage in blkfront.
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

This prevents us from having to call alloc_page while we are preparing
the request. Since blkfront was calling alloc_page with a spinlock
held we used GFP_ATOMIC, which can fail if we are requesting a lot of
pages since it is using the emergency memory pools.

Allocating all the pages at init prevents us from having to call
alloc_page, thus preventing possible failures.
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The git commit f84adf49
(xen-blkfront: drop the use of llist_for_each_entry_safe)

was a stop-gate to fix a GCC4.1 bug. The appropiate way
is to actually use an list instead of using an llist.

As such this patch replaces the usage of llist with an
list.

Since we always manipulate the list while holding the io_lock, there's
no need for additional locking (llist used previously is safe to use
concurrently without additional locking).
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
[v1: Redid the git commit description]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The benefits are:
* code is cleaner
* kmemdup adds additional debugging info useful for tracking the real
place where memory was allocated (CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB).
Signed-off-by: NMihnea Dobrescu-Balaur <mihneadb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Replace llist_for_each_entry_safe with a while loop.

llist_for_each_entry_safe can trigger a bug in GCC 4.1, so it's best
to remove it and use a while loop and do the deletion manually.

Specifically this bug can be triggered by hot-unplugging a disk, either
by doing xm block-detach or by save/restore cycle.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff0
IP: [<ffffffffa0047223>] blkif_free+0x63/0x130 [xen_blkfront]
The crash call trace is:
	...
bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x20
do_page_fault+0x25e/0x4b0
page_fault+0x25/0x30
? blkif_free+0x63/0x130 [xen_blkfront]
blkfront_resume+0x46/0xa0 [xen_blkfront]
xenbus_dev_resume+0x6c/0x140
pm_op+0x192/0x1b0
device_resume+0x82/0x1e0
dpm_resume+0xc9/0x1a0
dpm_resume_end+0x15/0x30
do_suspend+0x117/0x1e0

When drilling down to the assembler code, on newer GCC it does
.L29:
        cmpq    $-16, %r12      #, persistent_gnt check
        je      .L30    	#, out of the loop
.L25:
	... code in the loop
        testq   %r13, %r13      # n
        je      .L29    	#, back to the top of the loop
        cmpq    $-16, %r12      #, persistent_gnt check
        movq    16(%r12), %r13  # <variable>.node.next, n
        jne     .L25    	#,	back to the top of the loop
.L30:

While on GCC 4.1, it is:
L78:
	... code in the loop
	testq   %r13, %r13      # n
        je      .L78    #,	back to the top of the loop
        movq    16(%rbx), %r13  # <variable>.node.next, n
        jmp     .L78    #,	back to the top of the loop

Which basically means that the exit loop condition instead of
being:

	&(pos)->member != NULL;

is:
	;

which makes the loop unbound.

Since xen-blkfront is the only user of the llist_for_each_entry_safe
macro remove it from llist.h.

Orabug: 16263164
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Currently blkfront fails to handle cases in blkif_completion like the
following:

1st loop in rq_for_each_segment
 * bv_offset: 3584
 * bv_len: 512
 * offset += bv_len
 * i: 0

2nd loop:
 * bv_offset: 0
 * bv_len: 512
 * i: 0

In the second loop i should be 1, since we assume we only wanted to
read a part of the previous page. This patches fixes this cases where
only a part of the shared page is read, and blkif_completion assumes
that if the bv_offset of a bvec is less than the previous bv_offset
plus the bv_size we have to switch to the next shared page.
Reported-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Implement a safe version of llist_for_each_entry, and use it in
blkif_free. Previously grants where freed while iterating the list,
which lead to dereferences when trying to fetch the next item.
Reported-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[v2: Move the llist_for_each_entry_safe in llist.h]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Free the page allocated for the persistent grant.
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

This patch contains fixes for persistent grants implementation v2:

 * handle == 0 is a valid handle, so initialize grants in blkback
   setting the handle to BLKBACK_INVALID_HANDLE instead of 0. Reported
   by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.

 * new_map is a boolean, use "true" or "false" instead of 1 and 0.
   Reported by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.

 * blkfront announces the persistent-grants feature as
   feature-persistent-grants, use feature-persistent instead which is
   consistent with blkback and the public Xen headers.

 * Add a consistency check in blkfront to make sure we don't try to
   access segments that have not been set.
Reported-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
[v1: The new_map int->bool had already been changed]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

This patch implements persistent grants for the xen-blk{front,back}
mechanism. The effect of this change is to reduce the number of unmap
operations performed, since they cause a (costly) TLB shootdown. This
allows the I/O performance to scale better when a large number of VMs
are performing I/O.

Previously, the blkfront driver was supplied a bvec[] from the request
queue. This was granted to dom0; dom0 performed the I/O and wrote
directly into the grant-mapped memory and unmapped it; blkfront then
removed foreign access for that grant. The cost of unmapping scales
badly with the number of CPUs in Dom0. An experiment showed that when
Dom0 has 24 VCPUs, and guests are performing parallel I/O to a
ramdisk, the IPIs from performing unmap's is a bottleneck at 5 guests
(at which point 650,000 IOPS are being performed in total). If more
than 5 guests are used, the performance declines. By 10 guests, only
400,000 IOPS are being performed.

This patch improves performance by only unmapping when the connection
between blkfront and back is broken.

On startup blkfront notifies blkback that it is using persistent
grants, and blkback will do the same. If blkback is not capable of
persistent mapping, blkfront will still use the same grants, since it
is compatible with the previous protocol, and simplifies the code
complexity in blkfront.

To perform a read, in persistent mode, blkfront uses a separate pool
of pages that it maps to dom0. When a request comes in, blkfront
transmutes the request so that blkback will write into one of these
free pages. Blkback keeps note of which grefs it has already
mapped. When a new ring request comes to blkback, it looks to see if
it has already mapped that page. If so, it will not map it again. If
the page hasn't been previously mapped, it is mapped now, and a record
is kept of this mapping. Blkback proceeds as usual. When blkfront is
notified that blkback has completed a request, it memcpy's from the
shared memory, into the bvec supplied. A record that the {gref, page}
tuple is mapped, and not inflight is kept.

Writes are similar, except that the memcpy is peformed from the
supplied bvecs, into the shared pages, before the request is put onto
the ring.

Blkback stores a mapping of grefs=>{page mapped to by gref} in
a red-black tree. As the grefs are not known apriori, and provide no
guarantees on their ordering, we have to perform a search
through this tree to find the page, for every gref we receive. This
operation takes O(log n) time in the worst case. In blkfront grants
are stored using a single linked list.

The maximum number of grants that blkback will persistenly map is
currently set to RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, to
prevent a malicios guest from attempting a DoS, by supplying fresh
grefs, causing the Dom0 kernel to map excessively. If a guest
is using persistent grants and exceeds the maximum number of grants to
map persistenly the newly passed grefs will be mapped and unmaped.
Using this approach, we can have requests that mix persistent and
non-persistent grants, and we need to handle them correctly.
This allows us to set the maximum number of persistent grants to a
lower value than RING_SIZE * BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST, although
setting it will lead to unpredictable performance.

In writing this patch, the question arrises as to if the additional
cost of performing memcpys in the guest (to/from the pool of granted
pages) outweigh the gains of not performing TLB shootdowns. The answer
to that question is `no'. There appears to be very little, if any
additional cost to the guest of using persistent grants. There is
perhaps a small saving, from the reduced number of hypercalls
performed in granting, and ending foreign access.
Signed-off-by: NOliver Chick <oliver.chick@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NRoger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
[v1: Fixed up the misuse of bool as int]

flush[_delayed]_work_sync() are now spurious.  Mark them deprecated
and convert all users to flush[_delayed]_work().

If you're cc'd and wondering what's going on: Now all workqueues are
non-reentrant and the regular flushes guarantee that the work item is
not pending or running on any CPU on return, so there's no reason to
use the sync flushes at all and they're going away.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Kent Yoder <key@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: Sangbeom Kim <sbkim73@samsung.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> 

With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b29.  The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: N"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>

Part of the ring structure is the 'id' field which is under
control of the frontend. The frontend stamps it with "some"
value (this some in this implementation being a value less
than BLK_RING_SIZE), and when it gets a response expects
said value to be in the response structure. We have a check
for the id field when spolling new requests but not when
de-spolling responses.

We also add an extra check in add_id_to_freelist to make
sure that the 'struct request' was not NULL - as we cannot
pass a NULL to __blk_end_request_all, otherwise that crashes
(and all the operations that the response is dealing with
end up with __blk_end_request_all).

Lastly we also print the name of the operation that failed.

[v1: s/BUG/WARN/ suggested by Stefano]
[v2: Add extra check in add_id_to_freelist]
[v3: Redid op_name per Jan's suggestion]
[v4: add const * and add WARN on failure returns]
Acked-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The blkdev major must be released upon exit, or else the module can't
attach to devices using the same majors upon being loaded again. Also
avoid leaking the minor tracking bitmap.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

- devices beyond xvdzz didn't get proper names assigned at all
- extended devices with minors not representable within the kernel's
  major/minor bit split spilled into foreign majors
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

commit b9136d207f08
  xen: initialize platform-pci even if xen_emul_unplug=never

breaks blkfront/netfront by not loading them because of
xen_platform_pci_unplug=0 and it is never set for PV guest.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

When xen_emul_unplug=never is specified on kernel command line
reading files from /sys/hypervisor is broken (returns -EBUSY).
It is caused by xen_bus dependency on platform-pci and
platform-pci isn't initialized when xen_emul_unplug=never is
specified.

Fix it by allowing platform-pci to ignore xen_emul_unplug=never,
and do not intialize xen_[blk|net]front instead.
Signed-off-by: NIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

This patch moves the global blkif_io_lock to the per-device structure. The
spinlock seems to exists for two reasons: to disable IRQs when in the interrupt
handlers for blkfront, and to protect the blkfront VBDs when a detachment is
requested.

Having a global blkif_io_lock doesn't make sense given the use case, and it
drastically hinders performance due to contention. All VBDs with pending IOs
have to take the lock in order to get work done, which serializes everything
pretty badly.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Noonan <snoonan@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

We should hang onto bdev until we're done with it.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
[v1: Fixed up git commit description]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Use bitmap_set and bitmap_clear rather than modifying individual bits
in a memory region.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The 'name', 'owner', and 'mod_name' members are redundant with the
identically named fields in the 'driver' sub-structure. Rather than
switching each instance to specify these fields explicitly, introduce
a macro to simplify this.

Eliminate further redundancy by allowing the drvname argument to
DEFINE_XENBUS_DRIVER() to be blank (in which case the first entry from
the ID table will be used for .driver.name).

Also eliminate the questionable xenbus_register_{back,front}end()
wrappers - their sole remaining purpose was the checking of the
'owner' field, proper setting of which shouldn't be an issue anymore
when the macro gets used.

v2: Restore DRV_NAME for the driver name in xen-pciback.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The advantage of kcalloc is, that will prevent integer overflows which could
result from the multiplication of number of elements and size and it is also
a bit nicer to read.

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107Signed-off-by: NThomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
[v1: Seperated the drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c out of this patch]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Part of the blkdev_issue_discard(xx) operation is that it can also
issue a secure discard operation that will permanantly remove the
sectors in question. We advertise that we can support that via the
'discard-secure' attribute and on the request, if the 'secure' bit
is set, we will attempt to pass in REQ_DISCARD | REQ_SECURE.

CC: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Used 'flag' instead of 'secure:1' bit]
[v2: Use 'reserved' uint8_t instead of adding a new value]
[v3: Check for nseg when mapping instead of operation]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

In a union type structure to deal with the overlapping
attributes in a easier manner.
Suggested-by: NIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

... though after a failed xenbus_register_frontend() all may be lost.
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NLaszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Guard against issuing BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER or BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_CACHE
by checking whether we successfully negotiated with the backend.
The negotiation with the backend also sets the q->flush_flags which
fortunately for us is also used when submitting an bio to us. If
we don't support barriers or flushes it would be set to zero so
we should never end up having to deal with REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA.

However, other third party implementations of __make_request that
might be stacked on top of us might not be so smart, so lets fix this up.
Acked-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

When we get -EOPNOTSUPP response for a discard request, we will clear
the discard flag on the request queue so we won't attempt to send discard
requests to backend again, and this should be protected under rq->queue_lock.
However, when we setup the request queue, we pass blkif_io_lock to
blk_init_queue so rq->queue_lock is blkif_io_lock indeed, and this lock
is already taken when we are in blkif_interrpt, so remove the
spin_lock/spin_unlock when we clear the discard flag or we will end up
with deadlock here
Signed-off-by: NLi Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Updated description a bit and removed comment from source]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

If the backend advertises 'feature-discard', then interrogate
the backend for alignment and granularity. Setup the request
queue with the appropiate values and send the discard operation
as required.
Signed-off-by: NLi Dongyang <lidongyang@novell.com>
[v1: Amended commit description]
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Avoid telling users to use xvde and onwards when using xvde.
Acked-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

These were intended to avoid the namespace clash when representing
emulated IDE and SCSI devices. However that seems to confuse users
more than expected (a disk defined as sda becomes xvde).
So for now go back to the scheme which does no adjustments. This
will break when mixing IDE and SCSI names in the configuration of
guests but should be by now expected.
Acked-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

If the backend supports the 'feature-flush-cache' mode, use that
instead of the 'feature-barrier' support.

Currently there are three backends that support the 'feature-flush-cache'
mode: NetBSD, Solaris and Linux kernel. The 'flush' option is much
light-weight version than the 'barrier' support so lets try to use as
there are no filesystems in the kernel that use full barriers anymore.
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

barrier variable is int, not long. This overflow caused another variable
override: "err" (in PV code) and "binfo" (in xenlinux code -
drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c). The later caused incorrect device
flags (RO/removable etc).
Signed-off-by: NMarek Marczykowski <marmarek@mimuw.edu.pl>
Acked-by: NIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
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Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Prepare for extending the block device ring to allow request
specific fields, by moving the request specific fields for
reads, writes and barrier requests to a union member.
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NOwen Smith <owen.smith@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

This patch makes sure blkfront handles correctly virtual device numbers
corresponding to Xen emulated IDE and SCSI disks: in those cases
blkfront translates the major number to XENVBD and the minor number to a
low xvd minor.

Note: this behaviour is different from what old xenlinux PV guests used
to do: they used to steal an IDE or SCSI major number and use it
instead.
Signed-off-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>

flush_scheduled_work() is deprecated and scheduled to be removed.
Directly flush info->work instead.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Without this, gcc 4.5 won't compile xen-netfront and xen-blkfront, where
this is being used to specify array sizes.
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>