[PATCH 1/4] virtio_blk: deprecate the 1024-byte ID field.

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Sep 29 2009 - 13:18:22 EST



PCI, lguest and s390 can all only support 256-byte configuration
space. So, this giant field broke just about everyone.
Unfortunately, removing it is not so simple: we don't want to break
old userspace, but we're going to want to re-use that part of the
struct.

So, modern users can #define VIRTIO_BLK_IDENTIFY_DEPRECATED to indicate
that they know it's no longer in the config struct, and can use any
new features (all new features which add a configuration field will
conflict with this deprecated one).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/virtio_blk.h | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
//#define DEBUG
+/* We want to see new fields: we use our own struct if we fall back to this */
+#define VIRTIO_BLK_IDENTIFY_DEPRECATED
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/hdreg.h>
@@ -183,8 +185,22 @@ static void do_virtblk_request(struct re
vblk->vq->vq_ops->kick(vblk->vq);
}

-/* return ATA identify data
+/* return ATA identify data: deprecated
*/
+struct virtio_blk_config_deprecated {
+ /* The capacity (in 512-byte sectors). */
+ __u64 capacity;
+ /* The maximum segment size (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_SIZE_MAX) */
+ __u32 size_max;
+ /* The maximum number of segments (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX) */
+ __u32 seg_max;
+ /* geometry the device (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_GEOMETRY) */
+ struct virtio_blk_geometry geometry;
+ /* block size of device (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE) */
+ __u32 blk_size;
+ __u8 identify[VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES];
+} __attribute__((packed));
+
static int virtblk_identify(struct gendisk *disk, void *argp)
{
struct virtio_blk *vblk = disk->private_data;
@@ -196,7 +212,7 @@ static int virtblk_identify(struct gendi
goto out;

err = virtio_config_buf(vblk->vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_IDENTIFY,
- offsetof(struct virtio_blk_config, identify), opaque,
+ offsetof(struct virtio_blk_config_deprecated, identify), opaque,
VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES);

if (err)
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_blk.h b/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
--- a/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio_blk.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_RO 5 /* Disk is read-only */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE 6 /* Block size of disk is available*/
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI 7 /* Supports scsi command passthru */
-#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_IDENTIFY 8 /* ATA IDENTIFY supported */
+#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_IDENTIFY 8 /* ATA IDENTIFY support (deprecated) */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH 9 /* Cache flush command support */

#define VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES (sizeof(__u16[256])) /* IDENTIFY DATA */
@@ -33,7 +33,15 @@ struct virtio_blk_config {
} geometry;
/* block size of device (if VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE) */
__u32 blk_size;
+#ifndef VIRTIO_BLK_IDENTIFY_DEPRECATED
+ /*
+ * New code shouldn't use this, but it's under the #ifndef so old
+ * userspace doesn't break.
+ */
__u8 identify[VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES];
+#else
+ /* New fields go here: (all new extensions conflict with F_IDENTIFY) */
+#endif
} __attribute__((packed));

/*

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