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virtio_blk: add support for cache flush

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Recent qemu has added a VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH flag to advertise that the
virtual disk has a volatile write cache that needs to be flushed.  In case
we see this feature implement tell the Linux block layer about the fact
and use the new VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH to flush the cache when required.  This
allows for an correct and simple implementation of write barriers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-17 19:57:42 +02:00
committed by Rusty Russell
parent 3ca4f5ca73
commit f1b0ef0626
2 changed files with 40 additions and 5 deletions
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include/linux/virtio_blk.h
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@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_BLK_SIZE 6 /* Block size of disk is available*/
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_SCSI 7 /* Supports scsi command passthru */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_IDENTIFY 8 /* ATA IDENTIFY supported */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH 9 /* Cache flush command support */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES (sizeof(__u16[256])) /* IDENTIFY DATA */
@ -35,6 +36,17 @@ struct virtio_blk_config {
__u8 identify[VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES];
} __attribute__((packed));
/*
* Command types
*
* Usage is a bit tricky as some bits are used as flags and some are not.
*
* Rules:
* VIRTIO_BLK_T_OUT may be combined with VIRTIO_BLK_T_SCSI_CMD or
* VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER. VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH is a command of its own
* and may not be combined with any of the other flags.
*/
/* These two define direction. */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_T_IN 0
#define VIRTIO_BLK_T_OUT 1
@ -42,6 +54,9 @@ struct virtio_blk_config {
/* This bit says it's a scsi command, not an actual read or write. */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_T_SCSI_CMD 2
/* Cache flush command */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_T_FLUSH 4
/* Barrier before this op. */
#define VIRTIO_BLK_T_BARRIER 0x80000000