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xen blkfront: Delay wait for block devices until after the disk is added

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When the xen block frontend driver is built as a module the module load
is only synchronous up to the point where the frontend and the backend
become connected rather than when the disk is added.

This means that there can be a race on boot between loading the module and
loading the dm-* modules and doing the scan for LVM physical volumes (all
in the initrd). In the failure case the disk is not present until after the
scan for physical volumes is complete.

Taken from:

  http://xenbits.xensource.com/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg?rev/11483a00c017

Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Christian Limpach
2008-04-02 10:54:04 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 53f0e8afcb
commit 1d78d70556
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@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ struct xenbus_driver {
int (*uevent)(struct xenbus_device *, char **, int, char *, int);
struct device_driver driver;
int (*read_otherend_details)(struct xenbus_device *dev);
int (*is_ready)(struct xenbus_device *dev);
};
static inline struct xenbus_driver *to_xenbus_driver(struct device_driver *drv)