Re: [PATCH 0000/0046] Staging: hv: Driver cleanup

[Olaf Hering]

On Sat, Aug 27, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:

> 	2) Handle all block devices using the storvsc driver. I have modified
> 	   the implementation here based on Christoph's feedback on my earlier
> 	   implementation.

The upgrade path from hv_blkvsc to hv_storvsc is difficult.

hv_storvsc does not provide the vmbus:hv_block modalias, so mkinitrd
does not know what module to choose when mkinitrd is called in a
previous kernel (like sles11sp1).


In a guest with both SCSI and IDE controllers the IDE disks are
discovered first, so the SCSI drives will also change their names.
Thats not a problem for data partitions because they could be mounted by
UUID or LABEL in fstab.
But its difficult to adjust /boot/grub/device.map for example because
the old  IDE drives do not provide an identifier. What is the best way
to make sure the rename from hd* to sd* in such config files is done
correctly? Is it safe to assume that all drives with a class_id of
32412632-86cb-44a2-9b5c50d1417354f5 are connected to IDE ports?

localhost:~ # head /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus_0_{1,2,3,10,11}/class_id
==> /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus_0_1/class_id <==
{32412632-86cb-44a2-9b5c50d1417354f5}

==> /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus_0_2/class_id <==
{32412632-86cb-44a2-9b5c50d1417354f5}

==> /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus_0_3/class_id <==
{32412632-86cb-44a2-9b5c50d1417354f5}

==> /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus_0_10/class_id <==
{ba6163d9-04a1-4d29-b60572e2ffb1dc7f}

==> /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus_0_11/class_id <==
{ba6163d9-04a1-4d29-b60572e2ffb1dc7f}


In my test system, the IDE drives are now discovered twice, once by
hv_storvsc and once by libata:

localhost:~ # lsscsi 
[0:0:0:0]    disk    Msft     Virtual Disk     1.0   /dev/sda 
[1:0:1:0]    disk    Msft     Virtual Disk     1.0   /dev/sdb 
[2:0:1:0]    disk    Msft     Virtual Disk     1.0   /dev/sdc 
[3:0:0:0]    disk    Msft     Virtual Disk     1.0   /dev/sdd 
[3:0:0:1]    disk    Msft     Virtual Disk     1.0   /dev/sde 
[4:0:0:0]    disk    Msft     Virtual Disk     1.0   /dev/sdf 
[4:0:0:1]    disk    Msft     Virtual Disk     1.0   /dev/sdg 
[5:0:0:0]    disk    ATA      Virtual HD       1.1.  /dev/sdh 
[5:0:1:0]    disk    ATA      Virtual HD       1.1.  /dev/sdi 
[6:0:0:0]    cd/dvd  Msft     Virtual CD/ROM   1.0   /dev/sr0 
[6:0:1:0]    disk    ATA      Virtual HD       1.1.  /dev/sdj 
localhost:~ # blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="47aebbfb-13ee-49cc-b1e7-bc0c243fe3c0" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="ed5a182b-da28-42f2-acff-5649a8fae247" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sdh1: UUID="47aebbfb-13ee-49cc-b1e7-bc0c243fe3c0" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdh2: UUID="ed5a182b-da28-42f2-acff-5649a8fae247" TYPE="ext3" 

sda/sdh was hda.

Olaf
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