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Block driver using virtio.
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:03:38 +0000 (11:03 +1000)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:49:54 +0000 (15:49 +1000)
commite467cde238184d1b0923db2cd61ae1c5a6dc15aa
tree1383321c88ca25fcad20f56f14a8ca658bb25fb3
parent296f96fcfc160e29c01819c0c7b20c2dc8320edd
Block driver using virtio.

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>
drivers/block/Kconfig
drivers/block/Makefile
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/Kbuild
include/linux/virtio_blk.h [new file with mode: 0644]