When the xen block frontend driver is built as a module the module load
is only synchronous up to the point where the frontend and the backend
become connected rather than when the disk is added.

This means that there can be a race on boot between loading the module and
loading the dm-* modules and doing the scan for LVM physical volumes (all
in the initrd). In the failure case the disk is not present until after the
scan for physical volumes is complete.

Taken from:

  http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/11483a00c017Signed-off-by: NChristian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NMark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

info->dev is never initialized to anything, so bdget(info->dev) is
meaningless.  Get rid of info->dev, and use bdget_disk on the gendisk.
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Frontends are expected to write their protocol ABI to xenstore.  Since
the protocol ABI defaults to the backend's native ABI, things work
fine without that as long as the frontend's native ABI is identical to
the backend's native ABI.  This is not the case for xen-blkfront
running 32-on-64, because its ABI differs between 32 and 64 bit, and
thus needs this fix.

Based on http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/c545932a18f3
and http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/ffe52263b430 by
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

The below implements the getgeo hook for Xen block devices. Extracted
from the xen-unstable tree where it has been used for ages.

It is useful to have because it allows things like grub2 (used by the
Debian installer images) to work in a guest domain without having to
sprinkle Xen specific hacks around the place.
Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch converts xen-blkfront to use blk_end_request interfaces.
Related 'uptodate' arguments are converted to 'error'.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NKiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: NJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Remove one level of nesting where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Every usage of rq_for_each_bio wraps a usage of
bio_for_each_segment, so these can be combined into
rq_for_each_segment.

We define "struct req_iterator" to hold the 'bio' and 'index' that
are needed for the double iteration.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

Various compile fixes by me...
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block
devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
block device driver.
Signed-off-by: NIan Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>