On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:34:26PM +0800, Li Dongyang wrote:
>> As of dfaa2ef68e80c378e610e3c8c536f1c239e8d3ef, loop devices support
>> discard request now. We could just issue a discard request, and
>> the loop driver will punch the hole for us, so we don't need to touch
>> the internals of loop device and punch the hole ourselves, Thanks.
>
> Can I ask you to do two things:
> 1). Look in whether we can just eliminate the BLKIF_BACKEND_FILE altogether?
I think we still need that flag, as for other type of backing dev, we
will figure it out and send back a EOPNOTSUPP.
> 2). Rebase this on top #devel/for-jens-3.3
> (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git)
no problem
>
> Thanks!
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Li Dongyang <lidongyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 21 +++------------------
>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
>> b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
>> index 15ec4db..ad365a7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
>> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
>> @@ -39,9 +39,6 @@
>> #include <linux/list.h>
>> #include <linux/delay.h>
>> #include <linux/freezer.h>
>> -#include <linux/loop.h>
>> -#include <linux/falloc.h>
>> -#include <linux/fs.h>
>>
>> #include <xen/events.h>
>> #include <xen/page.h>
>> @@ -422,25 +419,13 @@ static void xen_blk_discard(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
>> struct blkif_request *req)
>> int status = BLKIF_RSP_OKAY;
>> struct block_device *bdev = blkif->vbd.bdev;
>>
>> - if (blkif->blk_backend_type == BLKIF_BACKEND_PHY)
>> - /* just forward the discard request */
>> + if (blkif->blk_backend_type == BLKIF_BACKEND_PHY ||
>> + blkif->blk_backend_type == BLKIF_BACKEND_FILE)
>> err = blkdev_issue_discard(bdev,
>> req->u.discard.sector_number,
>> req->u.discard.nr_sectors,
>> GFP_KERNEL, 0);
>> - else if (blkif->blk_backend_type == BLKIF_BACKEND_FILE) {
>> - /* punch a hole in the backing file */
>> - struct loop_device *lo = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
>> - struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file;
>> -
>> - if (file->f_op->fallocate)
>> - err = file->f_op->fallocate(file,
>> - FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,
>> - req->u.discard.sector_number << 9,
>> - req->u.discard.nr_sectors << 9);
>> - else
>> - err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>> - } else
>> + else
>> err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
>>
>> if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
>> --
>> 1.7.7
>>
>>
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