Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] xen-block: support feature-large-sector-size

[Max Reitz]

On 09.04.19 18:40, Paul Durrant wrote:
> A recent Xen commit [1] clarified the semantics of sector based quantities
> used in the blkif protocol such that it is now safe to create a xen-block
> device with a logical_block_size != 512, as long as the device only
> connects to a frontend advertizing 'feature-large-block-size'.
> 
> This patch modifies xen-block accordingly. It also uses a stack variable
> for the BlockBackend in xen_block_realize() to avoid repeated dereferencing
> of the BlockConf pointer, and changes the parameters of
> xen_block_dataplane_create() so that the BlockBackend pointer and sector
> size are passed expicitly rather than implicitly via the BlockConf.
> 
> These modifications have been tested against a recent Windows PV XENVBD
> driver [2] using a xen-disk device with a 4kB logical block size.
> 
> [1] 
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=67e1c050e36b2c9900cca83618e56189effbad98
> [2] https://winpvdrvbuild.xenproject.org:8080/job/XENVBD-master/126
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <address@hidden>
> ---
> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <address@hidden>
> Cc: Anthony Perard <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> Cc: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> Cc: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/block/dataplane/xen-block.c | 25 ++++++++++++----------
>  hw/block/dataplane/xen-block.h |  3 ++-
>  hw/block/xen-block.c           | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Thanks, added “by frontend” to the error message and applied to my block
branch:

https://git.xanclic.moe/XanClic/qemu/commits/branch/block

Max

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