[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 00 of 10] blkfront pvops updates

[Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:50 -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 07:19 PM, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Here are couple of bugfixes for blkfront.
> >
> >  1. Bdev removal was slightly buggy. [Is nobody out there using
> >     block-detach??] Also it seems like we'be been leaking the gendisk
> >     structs for a long time.
> >
> >  2. Fixes most common occasions where disk open/close races against
> >     backend state switches. This one didn't come for free:
> >     * xenbus_switch_state growing transactions again.
> >     * New mutex in blkfront_info
> >     * Bdev .open/.close rewritten accordingly.
> >   
> 
> Thanks for this.  However, when I went to apply it, it looks like I've
> made a mess of the various blkfront branches. 
> 
> xen/frontend has some changes from Jan and Ky which are merged into
> xen/next and the various stable branches.
> 
> I also have xen/blkfront, which has your last set of changes, which I
> seem to have forgotten to merge into anything else, and now conflicts
> non-trivially with xen/blkfront.  I'd like to add this new set of
> patches into xen/blkfront, but it doesn't apply cleanly.
> 
> Could you look at this and advise me what I should do?

Oh, NP. I'll try and see if I can gather those and what it takes to
merge.

Daniel


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