Commit 135da0b0 authored by Christian Borntraeger's avatar Christian Borntraeger Committed by Rusty Russell

virtio_blk: provide getgeo

Rusty,

I currently try to make my guest boot from an virtio root device
without having an external kernel. Some of the tools that I tried
expect HDIO_GETGEO to work. The most interesting value is likely
the geo.start value to get the offset of a partition. This value
is filled by block/ioctl.c if fops->getgeo is set. This patch also
fills in some standard values for heads, sectors and cylinders.

Makes sense?
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
parent 6c0cd7c0
......@@ -152,9 +152,20 @@ static int virtblk_ioctl(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp,
(void __user *)data);
}
/* We provide getgeo only to please some old bootloader/partitioning tools */
static int virtblk_getgeo(struct block_device *bd, struct hd_geometry *geo)
{
/* some standard values, similar to sd */
geo->heads = 1 << 6;
geo->sectors = 1 << 5;
geo->cylinders = get_capacity(bd->bd_disk) >> 11;
return 0;
}
static struct block_device_operations virtblk_fops = {
.ioctl = virtblk_ioctl,
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.getgeo = virtblk_getgeo,
};
static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
......
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