VIRTIO_F_BARRIER is deprecated. Replace it with VIRTIO_F_FLUSH
support.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
Documentation/lguest/lguest.c | 29 +++++++++--------------------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
index 8a6a8c6..dc73bc5 100644
--- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
+++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c
@@ -1640,15 +1640,6 @@ static void blk_request(struct virtqueue *vq)
off = out->sector * 512;
/*
- * The block device implements "barriers", where the Guest indicates
- * that it wants all previous writes to occur before this write. We
- * don't have a way of asking our kernel to do a barrier, so we just
- * synchronize all the data in the file. Pretty poor, no?
- */
- if (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER)
- fdatasync(vblk->fd);
-
- /*
* In general the virtio block driver is allowed to try SCSI commands.
* It'd be nice if we supported eject, for example, but we don't.
*/
@@ -1680,6 +1671,13 @@ static void blk_request(struct virtqueue *vq)
/* Die, bad Guest, die. */
errx(1, "Write past end %llu+%u", off, ret);
}
+
+ wlen = sizeof(*in);
+ *in = (ret >= 0 ? VIRTIO_BLK_S_OK : VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR);
+ } else if (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH) {
+ /* Flush */
+ ret = fdatasync(vblk->fd);
+ verbose("FLUSH fdatasync: %i\n", ret);
wlen = sizeof(*in);
*in = (ret >= 0 ? VIRTIO_BLK_S_OK : VIRTIO_BLK_S_IOERR);
} else {
@@ -1703,15 +1701,6 @@ static void blk_request(struct virtqueue *vq)
}
}
- /*
- * OK, so we noted that it was pretty poor to use an fdatasync as a
- * barrier. But Christoph Hellwig points out that we need a sync
- * *afterwards* as well: "Barriers specify no reordering to the front
- * or the back." And Jens Axboe confirmed it, so here we are:
- */
- if (out->type & VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER)
- fdatasync(vblk->fd);
-
/* Finished that request. */
add_used(vq, head, wlen);
}
@@ -1736,8 +1725,8 @@ static void setup_block_file(const char *filename)
vblk->fd = open_or_die(filename, O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE);
vblk->len = lseek64(vblk->fd, 0, SEEK_END);
- /* We support barriers. */
- add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_BARRIER);
+ /* We support FLUSH. */
+ add_feature(dev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH);
/* Tell Guest how many sectors this device has. */
conf.capacity = cpu_to_le64(vblk->len / 512);
--
1.7.1
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