Linux Virtualization - Jan 2008 - [PATCH] 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: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: kvm/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
==================================================================---
kvm.orig/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ kvm/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -154,9 +154,20 @@ static int virtblk_ioctl(struct inode *i
 			      (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,
+	.ioctl  = virtblk_ioctl,
+	.owner  = THIS_MODULE,
+	.getgeo = virtblk_getgeo,
 };
 
 static int virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)

On Thursday 24 January 2008 03:56:50 Christian Borntraeger
wrote:
> 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?
Perfect sense, applied.

I wonder if there's a standard helper for this?
> +/* 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;
> +}
Thanks,
Rusty.